Skip to main content
Collection StructurePoster collection
> "Billy" Sunday and Douglas Fairbanks join the Marines ... The noted evangelist and the famous cinema actor join a party of U.S. Marines just long enough to be photographed. Birds of a feather flock together they say. Sunday's sermons make him a "devil-should worry;" Fairbanks' screen antics make him a "devil-may-care," and the history of our "first to fight sea soldiers" puts them in the "devil-take-the-hindmost" class. ... This photo furnished by U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station ...
Item Title
"Billy" Sunday and Douglas Fairbanks join the Marines ... The noted evangelist and the famous cinema actor join a party of U.S. Marines just long enough to be photographed. Birds of a feather flock together they say. Sunday's sermons make him a "devil-should worry;" Fairbanks' screen antics make him a "devil-may-care," and the history of our "first to fight sea soldiers" puts them in the "devil-take-the-hindmost" class. ... This photo furnished by U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station ...
Collection TitlePoster collection
Issuing Body
United States. Marine Corps. Recruiting Publicity Bureau
Date Created1917/1918?
Description
Photograph of a group of marines holding two men, identified as Billy Sunday and Douglas Fairbanks (who are wearing baseball (?) uniforms), up on their shoulders.
Theme(s)
Language(s)
Country of Origin
Country of OriginUnited States
DimensionsOverall: 13 x 14 in. (33 x 35.6 cm)
FormatPoster
Medium
political posters
Color
color
Hoover IDPoster US 2373
Record NumberXX343.25305
Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
RightsNo known restrictions.
