These New Yorkers Volunteered Last Week. Is Your Name on This List?
A framed sheet lists several hundred names of recent volunteers in columns headed Army, Navy, Marines, U.S. Naval Reserve Force and National Guard, surrounded by photographs of troops and a list of recruiting stations under 'You Can Enlist Here.' The headline question 'Is your name on this list?' is the poster's tell for bandwagon: the printed names stand as visible proof that others in the city have already joined.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Recruiting Committee (New York)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Recruiting Committee. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-33.
Text on the object
THESE NEW YORKERS VOLUNTEERED LAST WEEK IS YOUR NAME ON THIS LIST? ARMY From May 28th to June 2nd, 1917 [nine columns of volunteers' surnames and initials, set in very small type: not transcribed] NAVY For Week ending, May 26, 1917 [names: not transcribed] MARINES For Week ending, May 26, 1917 [names: not transcribed] U.S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE [note beneath heading: names not available] NATIONAL GUARD [note beneath heading: Names not available] THE MAYOR'S COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL DEFENSE,--THE RECRUITING COMMITTEE, 50 East 42nd Street, New York YOU CAN ENLIST HERE RECRUITING STATIONS NATIONAL GUARD. / COAST ARTILLERY / QUARTERMASTER ENLISTED RESERVE / NAVAL MILITIA / ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS (EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, BRONX, JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN) / NAVY RECRUITING STATIONS (MANHATTAN, BRONX, BROOKLYN, JAMAICA, YONKERS) / U.S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE / MARINE RECRUITING STATIONS (MANHATTAN) [street addresses under each heading: too small to read reliably] Photograph titles and credits (each credited "The Official British Press Bureau"): SPRING TIME IN THE NORTH SEA LOOKING THROUGH THE PERISCOPE SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE A CLEAN HIT THESE MEN VOLUNTEERED MEN, MEN, AND MORE MEN [caption paragraphs under each photograph: too small to read in full]
Headlines, section headings, date lines, committee line, recruiting-station headings and the six photograph titles are read from the 2000 px scan. The name columns, station addresses and caption paragraphs are set in type too small to read reliably and are not transcribed. The photographs are credited to the Official British Press Bureau (the captions refer to British and Australian forces).
