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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
First to Fight: Democracy's Vanguard, U.S. Marine Corps
Sidney H. Riesenberg · U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 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 halftone Sidney H. Riesenberg made for Marine Corps recruiting in 1917, 102 by 76 cm.
Why it matters
The text dares the reader to join now and test his courage, with real fighting among real fighters. Riesenberg was known above all for his posters for the Marine Corps and the Liberty bond drives.
What to notice
Marines storming a beach.
A landing, offered as a test of nerve.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Sidney H. Riesenberg
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722434 · POS - US .R58, no. 1 (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). Sidney H. Riesenberg died in 1971; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2042. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; legal sign-off owed before any EU or UK order (the Dudovich precedent).
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