I Want You for U.S. Army (1917 poster)

American First World War recruiting poster by James Montgomery Flagg, dated 1917, showing a half-length Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer above the words "I want you for U.S. Army, nearest recruiting station." Flagg took the pointing pose from a 1914 British image of Lord Kitchener by Alfred Leete and used his own reflection as the model for Uncle Sam's face. More than four million copies were printed in 1917 and 1918.

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