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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
You Drive a Car Here: Why Not a Transport in France?
H. Blyleven · American Field Service, Boston, New York and Chicago, 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 H. Blyleven drew for the American Field Service in 1917, 70 by 49 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The Field Service recruited drivers through offices at 40 State Street in Boston, 14 Wall Street in New York and 425 Monadnock Block in Chicago, all three named on the sheet. The Library of Congress holds a second copy of the design.
What to notice
A group of men with a truck, under the question that turns a motorist into a volunteer.
The daily drive, moved to the front.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- H. Blyleven
- Campaign
- Enlist · Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- American Field Service, Boston, New York and Chicago, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700445 · POS - WWI - US, no. 404 (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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