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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
To Everyone in This Plant: Our Country Is Depending on You
L. N. Britton · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 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 L. N. Britton drew for the Publications Section of the Emergency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia in 1917, 61 by 46 cm.
Why it matters
It hung in plants engaged upon government work, and its long text tells everyone there that the country depended on them. Britton also drew Warning! Consider the Possible Consequences, a crashed airplane in the ocean.
What to notice
A small scene of work in a shipyard above lengthy text.
A letter to the yard, signed by the country.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- L. N. Britton
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652951 · POS - US .B758, no. 2 (B 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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