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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
Hey Fellows! Your Money Brings the Book We Need When We Want It
John E. Sheridan · American Library Association, United War Work Campaign, 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 John E. Sheridan drew for the American Library Association through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, for the United War Work Campaign week of 11 November 1918, 76 by 51 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The campaign set out to raise $170 million in the final week of the war, and of its seven societies the American Library Association spent its share on books and magazines for the troops. Sheridan attended Georgetown College and designed posters for athletic events there and at other colleges before the war.
What to notice
A soldier holds up a book and calls Hey Fellows! while a sailor sits on the ground at his feet, reading.
A library, carried in one raised hand.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- John E. Sheridan
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- American Library Association, United War Work Campaign, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722568 · POS - US .S47, no. 3 (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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