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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Fill 'Em Up to the Top: The Nation Is Counting on You
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975) · Issuer not named in the Library of Congress record, 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 Ernest Hamlin Baker drew in 1917, 48 by 31 cm, sheet No. 8.
Why it matters
Its caption gives the arithmetic: the average car carried only 43% of its capacity, and using every inch of space was a patriotic duty.
What to notice
Men loading crates onto a boxcar.
A boxcar's empty space, counted as a failing.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Issuer not named in the Library of Congress record, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652936 · POS - WWI - US, no. 227 (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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