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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Join Me: The First to Fight on Land and Sea, U.S. Marines
C. B. Falls (1874-1960) · U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 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 screen print with halftone C. B. Falls designed for Marine Corps recruiting in 1917, 28 by 55 cm on the sheet, a long low format.
Why it matters
The Marines called themselves the first to fight, and the sheet speaks in the Marine's own voice: join me. Falls, a member of the Decorative Designers, is known for his First World War posters.
What to notice
A Marine's face framed by his uniform collar, his hat and his rifle.
One face, filling the whole recruiting office.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- C. B. Falls (1874-1960)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709054 · POS - US .F35, no. 3 (B 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). C. B. Falls died in 1960; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2031. 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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