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The Posters That Went to War · Before the Great War
Your Country Needs You: Join the Navy!
Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960) · The Navy League, Washington, D.C., 1916
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 halftone Rolf Armstrong drew for the Navy League of Washington, D.C., in 1916, copyright the Knapp Co., Inc., of New York.
Why it matters
It came a year before America entered the war and calls the Navy America's first line of action. Its text reaches past the recruit: for men over the age limit there was special work at home, and work for every mother, sister, wife and sweetheart.
What to notice
A head-and-shoulders portrait of a sailor saluting, with the Statue of Liberty seen through a porthole behind him.
Liberty, glimpsed through the porthole.
Provenance
- School
- The Patriotic Print before 1917 (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- The Navy League, Washington, D.C., 1916
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00651859 · POS - WWI - US, no. 88 (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).
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