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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
Go Over the Top with U.S. Marines
John A. Coughlin (1885-1943) · 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 lithograph John A. Coughlin drew for Marine Corps recruiting in 1917, 71 by 54 cm.
Why it matters
Over the top was the order to leave the trench and attack. The Library of Congress describes the picture in the same words it uses for Coughlin's First in France, the same size, so the two sheets appear to carry one drawing under two headlines.
What to notice
A Marine carrying a mortar into combat, with the American flag behind him.
The same Marine, sent over under a new headline.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- John A. Coughlin (1885-1943)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002708934 · POS - US .C688, no. 2 (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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