They Crucify American Manhood Enlist U.S. Army
WWI Recruiting Poster
- 1917
- M. Hoyle
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27 x 41 1/2 inches ~ (68 x 104 cm)
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"'THEY CRUCIFY' portrays an actual incident of the war, witnessed by Sergeant Albert Goad, formerly of the Seaforth Highlanders, but since stationed with the British recruiting Mission in San Francisco. The atrocity was perpetrated in Belgium, in a shell shattered cottage, where Sergeant Goad found a murdered husband, a mother nailed to the wall, and a babe mutilated by a bayonet. The Sergeant told of this experience to the artist M. Hoyle, of San Francisco, who in turn painted it for the San Francisco Army Recruiting District, adhering conscientiously to the facts.
Louis Roesch Co Lith, San Francisco