Sold for $469

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

[WORLD WAR I]. True Blue. Chicago: E.G. Renesch, 1919.

16 x 20 in. chromolithograph (minor loss to top right corner, light corner wear, colors vivid and bright).

Recruitment poster showing a family admiring the portrait of the patriarch in uniform hanging over the mantle. The portrait is festooned with American flags and flanked by portraits of George Washington and Woodrow Wilson, a portrait of Lincoln hangs nearby. Over one million African Americans responded to draft calls, and roughly 370,000 African American men were inducted into the army.

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