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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Give the World the Once Over in the United States Navy
James Daugherty (1889-1974) · U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 1919
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 James Daugherty drew for Navy recruiting in 1919, 107 by 71 cm, captioned India.
Why it matters
The war was over, and the Navy sold the world as a destination: give it the once over. Daugherty was a modernist painter and muralist who later wrote and illustrated books for children.
What to notice
Sailors as tourists in India, riding an elephant and taking snapshots.
The world, seen from an elephant's back.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- James Daugherty (1889-1974)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709072 · POS - US .D38, no. 4 (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). James Daugherty died in 1974; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2045. 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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