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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
Help Stop This: Buy W.S.S. and Keep Him Out of America
Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) · National War Savings Committee, 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 Adolph Treidler drew for the National War Savings Committee, printed by the W. F. Powers Co. of New York, 70 by 52 cm, contributed by the L. E. Waterman Company.
Why it matters
War Savings Stamps let small sums go to the war, and this sheet sold them with fear: the enemy among ruins, and a promise to keep him out of America. The Atlas hangs it as the history of that image.
What to notice
A German soldier carrying a rifle and a bloody knife walks through ruins.
A savings stamp, sold as a lock on the door.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Adolph Treidler (1886-1981)
- Printer / house
- The W. F. Powers Co. Litho., New York
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Remember Belgium
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- National War Savings Committee, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722578 · POS - US .T74, no. 14 (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). Adolph Treidler died in 1981; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2052. 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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