Title

Daniels visits RECRUIT, 16 Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service.

Caption

Daniels visits RECRUIT, 16 Mar 1918. Crowd gathered to hear Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) during his visit to the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I. Daniels visited the Recruit on March 16, 1918.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A14_106

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

48.2Mo (2.7Mo) / 42.0cm x 28.8cm / 4960 x 3400 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation standing people library group crowd crowds square politics New York City country finance ship ships listening color photography political military war location century photograph first world war wartime recruitment concept speech photo Navy B&W new york state Library of Congress politician warfare Union Square United States of America Colour World War I WWI naval warfare United States Navy water transport black & white black and white B W white and black politicians World War One 1910s 20th century Liberty Bonds US Navy War Bond American America USA 1st World War Home Front TGN war effort WW1 Secretary of the Navy photograph fundraising united states fundraiser Bain George Graham Josephus USS Recruit Congressional Library Daniels Heritage Art glass negative liberty bond still image press photography Bain News Service George Graham Bain Landship Recruit Josephus Daniels Secretary Daniels J Daniels