'Uncle Sam Wants You'
Photograph
'Uncle Sam Wants You'
ca. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (30.2 × 25 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0033
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on paper taped to verso and folded to recto BC: 'UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU' to meet him at the Louisiana World Exposition in New \ Orleans, says a smmiling Kelly Welch, in a pose reminiscent of the famous poster. \ The gigantic papier-mache head is in the Louusiana Pavilion where fairgoers can \ take a 14-minute boat ride through the eye of a hurricane, along a romantic river \ road, past antebellum plantations and into Mardi Gras merrymaking. The World's \ Fair runs from May 12 to Nov. 11. \ -0- \ From: John A. DeMilia \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION \ Slug: 'UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU' \ Neg. No.: LWE11-R3-1 & 9 \ 42084
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
