Is anyone making recruiting posters?

[Jeffrey Cohen]

I'm not sure where to post this, but I'd like to find out if anyone is making them.
Regards,
Jeffrey Cohen

[redleggeddevil]

Re: Is anyone making recruiting posters?

I was in the same boat a couple of years ago and couldn't find anyone. I was doing an exhibit on CW recruitment and needed to have some appropriate NY State posters. The best I could manage was to find a good, crisp photo of an original, scan it and have it printed out on poster size, slightly off-white stock.

It wasn't perfect, but it was a copy of an original in roughly the same size. It looked good on the wall, and made a nice teaching tool.

I did a second one based on an original, but one where I couldn't find the original (I only had the text). I used a good set of period fonts and used the layout of another original poster, then blew it up and had it printed like the other one.

Better than nothing.

[inplacerest]

Re: Is anyone making recruiting posters?

Jeff,
Every so often there are repro recruiting posters on e-bay. Just search under Civil War or Civil War posters. I can't speak to the quality of them but there was quite a variety for sale a while back.
I have also copied/scanned and then enlarged from a print of an original. This is especially helpful for posters of not so well known units. Regards.
Mike McBride
Caught Off Guards

[FranklinGuardsNYSM]

Re: Is anyone making recruiting posters?

Jeff -

Are you looking for someone to make one in period style for modern "recruiting" usage, or are you looking for a specific historic example? If it's option A, let me know -- Mr. Wickersty did two variations for the Fire Zouave effort last year.

[Dignann]

Re: Is anyone making recruiting posters?

While prints are not for sale, the New York Historical Society has a fine collection of recruiting posters, with images available on-line.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhsarc.html

Eric

[lassus]

Re: Is anyone making recruiting posters?

Eric - Great suggestion! Our unit used the NYHS site to study appropriate formats, fonts, etc to style our own recruiting posters. This resource is perhaps the best online at present.
Pvt Joe Lassus
9th Kentucky Infantry Reg. U.S.