James Montgomery Flagg, “I Want YOU for U.S. Army”

James Montgomery Flagg, “I Want YOU for U.S. Army”
James Montgomery Flagg, “I Want YOU for U.S. Army”. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View full size
From
James Montgomery Flagg, I Want YOU for U.S. Army (recruiting poster)
Printed
Lithograph, 1917
Image from
Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Used in
☞ “Cut IV, I Want You (Darth Vader)”

The Uncle Sam recruiting poster of the First World War, the pose of every “I want you” parody since.

Shaped: Cut IV, I Want You (Darth Vader).

Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.

Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth I Want YOU for U.S. Army (recruiting poster) (Lithograph, 1917), the work of James Montgomery Flagg and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.

Cite the original
Flagg, James Montgomery.
I Want YOU for U.S. Army (recruiting poster).
Lithograph, 1917.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_Want_You_for_U.S._Army_by_James_Montgomery_Flagg.jpg.

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