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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
The Health of the Child Is the Power of the Nation: Children's Year
Francis Luis Mora (1874-1940) · U.S. Children's Bureau and the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1918
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 Francis Luis Mora drew for the Children's Bureau and the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, printed by the W. F. Powers Co. of New York in 1918, 50 by 76 cm.
Why it matters
Children's Year ran from April 1918 to April 1919, and the Committee on Public Information, the Creel Committee, used every medium it could reach to carry it. Mora was a Uruguayan-born American figure painter known for his pictures of American life.
What to notice
A group of happy children on a hill, on a sheet wider than it is tall.
A nation's strength, counted in children.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Francis Luis Mora (1874-1940)
- Printer / house
- The W. F. Powers Co., New York
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Children's Bureau and the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719770 · POS - US .M67, no. 4 (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. 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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