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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Civilians, When We Go Through This: The Jewish Welfare Board
Sidney H. Riesenberg · Jewish Welfare Board, United War Work Campaign, week of November 11, 1918, 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 Sidney H. Riesenberg drew for the Jewish Welfare Board, printed by Alco-Gravure, Inc. of New York in 1918, 84 by 56 cm, for the United War Work Campaign week of 11 November.
Why it matters
The Jewish Welfare Board was one of the societies sharing the United War Work fund, and its soldier asks civilians for all the help and comfort they can give. Riesenberg, best known for his Marine Corps and Liberty bond posters, gives the whole appeal to the man in the fight.
What to notice
A soldier reaching out above the chaos of battle. The sheet came to the Library as a gift of John Kluge in 2007.
A hand held out of the smoke.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Sidney H. Riesenberg
- Printer / house
- Alco-Gravure, Inc., New York
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Jewish Welfare Board, United War Work Campaign, week of November 11, 1918, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722437 · POS - US .R58, no. 2 (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). 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). Sidney H. Riesenberg died in 1971; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2042. 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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