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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
Know Him by This Sign: The Medical Caduceus
Bartow van Voorhis Matteson (born 1894) · Medical Department, United States Army, 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 halftone Bartow van Voorhis Matteson drew for the Medical Department of the United States Army in 1919.
Why it matters
The wounds of war are not all healed, the sheet says, and it asks men to enlist for one or three years and help finish the job, learning x-ray work, pharmacy, veterinary practice, operating room work, dentistry, laboratory work or hospital service.
What to notice
A bust portrait of a man in a hat, and a pin bearing the caduceus.
A trade, learned by tending the war's wounds.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Bartow van Voorhis Matteson (born 1894)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Medical Department, United States Army, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00651835 · POS - US .M383, no. 1 (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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