Object: Poster, ’Offer Your Services Now’
Title / object name  Poster, ’Offer Your Services Now’
Maker  Role  Date  
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee  publisher  November 1914  
Materials  ink, paper
Dimensions
Overall  760 (Height) x 503 (Length) mm
Classification  political posters
Technique  offset lithography
Registration Number  GH016290
Credit Line
Gift of Department of Defence, 1919

Text posters such as this one were common in the First World War, both in New Zealand and Britain, when governments needed to quickly and effectively make proclamations in an era without television or radio.

Red, white and blue
Many British First World War posters were printed in the colours of the Union Jack flag - red, white and blue - to lend authority to the message and subtly appeal to patriotic public sentiment, and simply to catch the eye.

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