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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
I'm Doing My Duty, Are You? Your Navy Needs You This Minute
Clinton Jordan · City of Boston Committee on Public Safety, 1914–1918
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 Clinton Jordan drew for Navy recruiting, printed by the Smith & Porter Press of Boston between 1914 and 1918 and issued by the City of Boston Committee on Public Safety.
Why it matters
Boston ran its own Navy recruiting through its Committee on Public Safety, which issued several sheets from the Smith & Porter Press. The Library of Congress dates this one only to the war years, so the Atlas files it at 1918.
What to notice
A sailor holding a rifle, under a title that makes a statement and then turns it into a question.
One man's duty, put as a question.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Clinton Jordan
- Printer / house
- Smith & Porter Press, Boston
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- City of Boston Committee on Public Safety, 1914–1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00651855 · POS - WWI - US, no. 133 (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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