Are You Trained to Defend Your Country?, circa 1918

Item — Folder: 4

Identifier: A1999-081-004

Scope and Contents

Soldier at a training camp with the caption: "Plattsburgh, New England Enrollment Headquarters, Military Training Camps Association, 42 Water St., Boston, Massachusetts

Dates

Creation: circa 1918

Creator

From the Collection: United States Food Administration (Organization)
From the Collection: Dibner, Andrew S. (Person)
From the Collection: Korzenik, Diana (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Full Extent

1 item/s : Chromolithograph on paper ; overall: 26 x 20 in.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Exhibition Label

Object labels, "'Americans, Do Your Bit': World War I in Posters" Opened 3 June 2017

Are Your Trained to Defend Your Country?, 1917 Military Camps Association United States Gift of Diana Korzenik and Andrew S. Dibner, A99/81/04

As the possibility of war in Europe grew in the mid-1910s, some Americans felt that the United States was, from a military perspective, unprepared. The Military Training Camps Association, a group formed to address this lack of preparedness by helping train civilians to become officers, published this poster, and another displayed nearby, with the goal of attracting participants to their summer camps. At these camps, including one in Plattsburg, New York, college students and businessman undertook weeks-long courses getting fit and learning about the military.