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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Jobs for Fighters: If You Need a Job, If You Need a Man
Gordon Grant (1875-1962) · United States Employment Service, Bureau for Returning Soldiers and Sailors, U.S. Department of Labor, 1919
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 offset print Gordon Grant designed for the Bureau for Returning Soldiers and Sailors of the United States Employment Service in 1919, 64 by 38 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The Bureau matched employers with the former soldiers and war workers who needed jobs after the war, and the service was free. Grant designed it as a captain in the Morale Branch of the General Staff in Washington, kept from France by a foot disability; he had drawn the Boer War for Harper's Weekly and later worked mainly as a marine artist.
What to notice
A soldier holding his Honorable Discharge steps across a welcome mat toward the Bureau's door.
Home from France, and looking for work.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Gordon Grant (1875-1962)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Employment Service, Bureau for Returning Soldiers and Sailors, U.S. Department of Labor, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002712342 · POS - US .G732, no. 6 (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). Gordon Grant died in 1962; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2033. 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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