WW I poster USA World War I, American recruitment poster showing a woman, a passenger from the Lusitania, submerged in water cradling an infant in her arms. This poster was inspired by a news report from Cork, Ireland that described, among recovered bodies, "a mother with a three-month old child clasped tightly in her arms. Her face wears a half smile. Her baby's head rests against her breast. No one has tried to separate them." On May 7, 1915 the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-Boat, the U-20. It sank within 18 minutes, eight miles off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,201 of the 1,959 people aboard. Original Title: Enlist. Artist: Fred Spear Poster, rotogravure, color ; 82 x 57 cm. Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation. New York 1915 or 1916.