Oh-- you unfit-- become a man!

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Title Oh-- you unfit-- become a man!

Description Text continues: "You weren't ready, were you-- when Uncle Sam called? Unfit, flabby, weak, useless--doing nothing for your family or your country! What kind of man are you? What good are you to anyone if you're dragging yourself about with your physical system a wreck, your mentality cobwebbed, and your spirit gone? Brace up! Take hold of yourself! I can help."Red and black text on tan background. The right side of the poster contains a black and white photograph of a muscular man in a codpiece leaning against a tree; left side contains a text box with various small illustrations, including a man in a suit, Uncle Sam, a WWI-era soldier, and small child.Mounted on red cardboard, 46 x 36 cm.

Creator Key Publishing Company (creator)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance), Donated as part of the Morris Kight McCadden Place Collection. (donor)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Advertising (subject), Exercise (subject), Physical fitness (subject)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:one,OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Format 1 print : screen print, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 35 x 26 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights The copyright status for this work is undetermined. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/UND/1.0/?language=en

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-44251

Identifier box 4 (box), P00548 (call number), one-2018001-p00548~01.tif (filename), one-c4-44251 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 44251

Unique identifier UC12349919

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p00548~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 22.7 in at 300dpi
46.8 cm × 57.8 cm at 300dpi

Transcript (If available)

Content

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Copyright Key Publishing Co.

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Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

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