Came across this WWI era Navy recruitment poster over the weekend.
It was from the brief period in WWI where women were able to join the US Navy as full service members with equal pay. So this was part of how the US Government explicitly tried to appeal to women.
I felt legally obligated to share it with Tumblr’s lesbians because… God damn!
‘For how many generations had they lived on the taxed soil? For how long, when other industries had failed, had they laughed and said “The fools! There is nothing like the land; all else fails, but it cannot be taken away.” And now they saw that which they had taken to be eternal vanishing from them even as a vapour. An entire race, a whole caste, saw themselves driven out of their soft, warm couches of idleness, and forced into the struggle for life.’ - George Moore (1852-1933), Irish novelist and last owner of Moore Hall. His ancestral home (built 1792) was burned down in 1923 by anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War as his brother Col. Maurice had become a senator in the new Irish Free State parliament.
