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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Learn and Earn: A Trade and an Education in the Ordnance Department
C. B. Falls (1874-1960) · Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, Ordnance Recruiting Poster No. 1, 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 lithograph C. B. Falls drew for Army Ordnance recruiting in 1919, 63 by 48 cm, Ordnance Recruiting Poster No. 1 and U.S. Army Ordnance No. 1503-i.
Why it matters
Made the year after the armistice, it recruits young men with the offer of a trade and an education. Falls belonged to the Decorative Designers, and his posters of the war years, Books Wanted among them, made his name.
What to notice
A mechanic in goggles welds part of a tank, and the text ends For particulars apply, with the address left blank.
A tank, offered as an apprenticeship.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- C. B. Falls (1874-1960)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, Ordnance Recruiting Poster No. 1, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709062 · POS - US .F35, 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). 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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