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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 · The Home Front
I'm Building the Ships We Need to Win
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · U.S. Maritime Commission, 1941–1945
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 poster issued by the U.S. Maritime Commission, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-1076, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The U.S. Maritime Commission ran the wartime merchant shipbuilding programme, and the sheet speaks for the men in its yards.
What to notice
The first person of the title, I'm building, a worker's statement where most production posters give an order.
A shipwright, signing his work.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Maritime Commission, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514603, local id 44-PA-1076), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514603 · 44-PA-1076
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. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 514603, 44-PA-1076): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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