Lend U.S. Your Eyes

“Will you supply eyes for the Navy?”  The arresting image of a blindfolded officer at sea, lost and confused, paired with that question, make this an effective poster – the image caught my attention and made me look and read further. Will you supply eyes for the Navy? Navy ships need binoculars and spy-glasses. Poster by Gordon Grant, 1917. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g10226 This World War I poster is calling for help from the general population in the United States, asking for a loan (though no promises of a return) of binoculars and spy-glasses to be used by the U.S. Navy in the war effort. I was curious about the program and searched further in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog for either…