Weird Weekend - A Sunday Sampler

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( And then Bill met Virginia Dare... )

( Tickle the world's palate! )

( LOOK OUT! For Public Enemy No. 1 )

TOAST WITH SALAD!



( Keeping today's little schoolhouse out of the Red! )

( Officer, I'm afraid I'm the victim of amnesia. )

Um, this is that "other" Tang, I guess.  I really hope it isn't the orange drink of astronauts.

Not that any man I know wants to "have a tang about him". XP




( She succumbed completely when, with devilish intuition, he... )

( Solve your gift problem for little girls for evermore )

( BOYS Look! A New Toy! D: )

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Advertising History 101: World War I Weekend

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THIS AD, probably one of the most famous recruitment posters ever, came from the Creel Committee (producers of pro-war propaganda and civic involvement propaganda) and was drawn by illustrator James Montgomery Flagg in 1917 (although used extensively in WW2 as well)



Read more HERE, HERE, and HERE.

"The Most Famous Poster

Originally published as the cover for the July 6, 1916, issue of Leslie's Weekly with the title "What Are You Doing for Preparedness?" this portrait of "Uncle Sam" went on to become--according to its creator, James Montgomery Flagg--"the most famous poster in the world." Over four million copies were printed between 1917 and 1918, as the United States entered World War I and began sending troops into war zones.

Flagg (1877-1960) contributed forty-six works to support the war effort. He was a member of the first Civilian Preparedness Committee organized in New York in 1917 and chaired by Govenor Clarkson. He also served as a member of Charles Dana Gibson's Committee of Pictorial Publicity, which was organized under the federal government's Committee on Public Information, headed by George Creel. Because of its overwhelming popularity, the image was later adapted for use in World War II. Upon presenting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a copy of the poster, Flagg remarked that he had been his own model for Uncle Sam to save the modeling fee. Roosevelt was impressed and replied: "I congratulate you on your resourcefulness in saving model hire. Your method suggests Yankee forebears."

Uncle Sam is one of the most popular personifications of the United States. However, the term "Uncle Sam" is of somewhat obscure derivation. Historical sources attribute the name to a meat packer who supplied meat to the army during the War of 1812--Samuel (Uncle Sam) Wilson (1766-1854). "Uncle Sam" Wilson was a man of great fairness, reliability, and honesty, who was devoted to his country--qualities now associated with "our" Uncle Sam. "

And then there's guilt!

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which we can also call "conscience".



Artist: Saville Lumley, 1915

Read more HERE, HERE and HERE.

YMCA -WW1

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