---
title: Patriotic Rally and Recruiting Meeting for the 23rd Regiment at Bedford Y.M.C.A.
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/patriotic-rally-and-recruiting-meeting-bedford-ymca-1917/
description: A type-only handbill announces a rally at the Bedford Y.M.C.A., 1121 Bedford Avenue, on Friday evening, September 21, 1917, with a named chairman.
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Patriotic Rally and Recruiting Meeting for the 23rd Regiment

[![Patriotic Rally and Recruiting Meeting for the 23rd Regiment at Bedford Y.M.C.A., 1917 US poster: A type-only handbill](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/patriotic-rally-and-recruiting-meeting-bedford-ymca-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/patriotic-rally-and-recruiting-meeting-bedford-ymca-1917.jpg)

# Patriotic Rally and Recruiting Meeting for the 23rd Regiment at Bedford Y.M.C.A.

A type-only handbill announces a rally at the Bedford Y.M.C.A., 1121 Bedford Avenue, on Friday evening, September 21, 1917, with a named chairman, two speakers, two singers from the National Patriotic Song Committee, motion pictures and the 23rd Regiment band. Admission is free. The tell is the public-event format: recruitment is attached to a communal occasion of speeches, songs and film.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PATRIOTIC RALLY AND
RECRUITING MEETING
For the 23rd REGIMENT
AT BEDFORD Y.M.C.A.
1121 Bedford Avenue
FRIDAY EVE. SEPT. 21
8 O'clock    1917

COL. FRANK H. NORTON, Chairman
SPEAKERS
REV. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS
HON. VINE H. SMITH
SINGERS
ELEONORA DE CISNEROS
Operatic Soprano, (National Patriotic Song Committee)
LYMAN WELLS CLARY
Baritone, (National Patriotic Song Committee)
SPECIAL MOTION PICTURES
23rd REGIMENT BAND

ADMISSION FREE
Under Auspices of the Recruiting Committee of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense
```

[← Portugal e a Gran Bretanha apertam as suas mãos de antigos aliados (Portugal and Great Britain Clasp Hands, Old Allies)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/portugal-e-a-gran-bretanha-postcard-1917/) [Kievlyanin, no. 252, front page (Kiev, 28 October 1917, old style): V. Shulgin's editorial and the "List No. 8" election appeal →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kievlyanin-shulgin-list-8-1917/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- ["Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jackson-ticket-hickory-tree-1828/) (United States · 1828 · Bandwagon, Transfer)
- [Democratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-stop-van-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)
- [Democratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/democratic-ticket-whole-hog-van-buren-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon)
- ["Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/political-race-course-union-track-harrison-1836/) (United States · 1836 · Bandwagon, Name-calling). Content note: Partisan caricature of named politicians that uses the epithet 'Black Dan' for Daniel Webster and regional stereotypes in the speech balloons.
- ["Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/) (United States · Apr 1836 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- ['The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-line-take-care-of-the-locomotive-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Bandwagon)
- ['The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-fox-chace-van-buren-harrison-childs-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Name-calling, Bandwagon)