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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
For Your Boy: United War Work Campaign, November 11-18, 1918
Arthur William Brown (1881-1966) · Y.M.C.A., United War Work Campaign, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1918
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph Arthur William Brown drew for the YMCA's part in the United War Work Campaign, issued through the Committee on Public Information's Division of Pictorial Publicity and printed by Ketterlinus of Philadelphia in 1918.
Why it matters
The United War Work Campaign ran from 11 to 18 November 1918, the week the armistice was signed, and raised one fund for the societies serving the troops. Brown was best known as an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine and Redbook.
What to notice
A man in uniform pours a cup of tea for a young soldier who sits with his rifle across his lap and his helmet at his feet; a signpost in the upper right corner carries the YMCA mark.
A cup of tea, poured for the whole army.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Arthur William Brown (1881-1966)
- Printer / house
- Ketterlinus, Philadelphia
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Y.M.C.A., United War Work Campaign, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652160 · POS - US .B768, no. 1a (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired). Arthur William Brown died in 1966; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2037. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; legal sign-off owed before any EU or UK order (the Dudovich precedent).
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