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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Come Along: Learn Something, See Something in the U.S. Navy
James Daugherty (1889-1974) · U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, Law Building, Wilmington, Delaware, 1919
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 James Daugherty drew for Navy recruiting in 1919, 107 by 71 cm, captioned South America and stamped for the Navy Recruiting Station in the Law Building at 9th and Market Streets, Wilmington, Delaware.
Why it matters
With the war over, the Navy recruited with travel, and the second line promises ample shore leave for inland sights. Daugherty was a modernist painter and muralist, later an author and illustrator of children's books.
What to notice
Two sailors as tourists in South America, riding a llama and feeding it bananas.
A llama, offered as a recruiting bonus.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- James Daugherty (1889-1974)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, Law Building, Wilmington, Delaware, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709071 · POS - US .D38, no. 5 (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). James Daugherty died in 1974; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2045. 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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