recruitment

37 photos and 1 illustration tagged recruitment, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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Recruiting, Montreal -- 1914 (LOC)

  • Kilted Cowboy said:
    the 5th regiment, Royal Highlanders of Canada still exists in Montreal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Watch_(Royal_Highland_Reg...
  • Mark in NOVA said:
    That dollar per day seemed to be the big selling point.
  • The Library of Congress said:
    Kilted Cowboy-- Thank you for the information about the Royal Highlanders. We will add some of it to the information when we update.
  • Kate McDonnell said:
    Notice the bad retouching on the boots bottom right. You often see very obvious retouching on photos distributed by news services.

Recruiting exhibition, Art Gallery?, Montreal, QC, 1916-17

Recruiting in Printing House Sq. (LOC)

  • Richard Norton said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Row_(Manhattan)
  • Art Siegel said:
    The new Navy recruiting tent in Printing House Square near the Benjamin Franklin statue is mentioned in a NY Sun article about recruitment on March 28, 1917: "Despite the bad weather scores of men halted at the new recruiting tent near the statue of Benjamin Franklin, in Printing House Square, to question the sailors about life in the Navy. Owing to the number of men passing this post daily, it is believed it will be one of the most important in the city." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-03-28/ed-...