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- Title
- Poster, 'The "Spirit of ANZAC" Calls You'
- Content partner
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
- Te Papa Collections Online
- Description
This poster was one of the first two voluntary recruitment posters to be commissioned by the New Zealand Army Department at the beginning of the Second World War. It was critical for the government to stimulate enthusiasm for voluntary enlistment, partly in the hope of avoiding conscription. The imagery in this poster relies on the viewer's memory of the First World War when the legend of the ANZAC soldier was born. The larger-than-life ghostly figure of a First World War soldier with his lem...
- Format
- Image
- Date created
- Late 1939 / Early 1940
- Creator
- Whitcombe & Tombs Limited / New Zealand Army
- URL
- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/780935
- Related subjects
- Soldiers / Military uniforms / paper / ink / posters / political posters / offset lithography / War / New Zealand / Australia / Wellington
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