"Take Up the Sword of Justice"

British recruiting poster by E. V. Kealey

The title of Sir Bernard Partridge's famous World War I recruiting poster sums up, and was borrowed for, the current exhibit in the Fairchild Gallery, a survey of British posters created in response to the war and its claims on society.

The posters in the exhibit are drawn from the Roger N. Mohovich Collection, a gathering of more than 400 American, British, and French posters, almost entirely relating to the war. The bulk of the posters are American, and the collection includes well-known examples by James Montgomery Flagg, Howard Chandler Christy, and many others. The collection was located by a member of the Library Associates, whose suggestion that it be donated to the library was accepted by Mr. Mohovich's executor and his two heirs, David van Buskirk and Warren Wilson.

The exhibit will be mounted through April, but an illustrated catalog of the exhibit is up and will remain on the Special Collections web page. Take a look, at http://gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu/dept/spec