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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
The Combination That Will Win the War
Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) · Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1917
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 Adolph Treidler drew for the Ordnance Department of the U.S. Army through the Committee on Public Information's Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1917, 103 by 70 cm.
Why it matters
It hung in the plants making ordnance. The text calls the American workman and the American soldier one combination and tells the worker that his product goes to France, where the men fight with what he makes.
What to notice
A worker and a soldier side by side, the two halves of the title's combination, in Treidler's flat poster colour.
A factory and a trench, drawn as one man twice.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Adolph Treidler (1886-1981)
- Campaign
- Production · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722580 · POS - US .T74, no. 11 (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). Adolph Treidler died in 1981; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2052. 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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