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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Farm to Win Over There: Join the U.S. Boys' Working Reserve
Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) · U.S. Boys' Working Reserve, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, 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 U.S. Department of Labor in 1917, recruiting young men from 16 to 21 into the U.S. Boys' Working Reserve, 100 by 72 cm.
Why it matters
The Reserve put boys too young for the army onto farms, and the poster calls them the army behind the Army.
What to notice
A boy at the plough in the foreground, with a battle on the horizon behind him.
A furrow ploughed in the direction of France.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Adolph Treidler (1886-1981)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Boys' Working Reserve, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722582 · POS - US .T74, no. 12 (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). 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). Title corrected: the record reads Woking for Working.
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