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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Look After My Folks
Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) · Navy Relief Society, Emergency Fund Committee, 280 Broadway, New York, 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 lithograph Frank Brangwyn drew for the Navy Relief Society in 1917, 105 by 71 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The Navy Relief Society, the official relief organization of the U.S. Navy, cared for the Navy's widows and orphans, and subscriptions went to any bank or to the Emergency Fund Committee at 280 Broadway. Brangwyn, the Welsh painter and printmaker, is estimated to have made more than 12,000 works in his lifetime.
What to notice
A sailor calling from the deck of a ship, the four words of the title in his mouth.
A sailor's request, called across the water.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Navy Relief Society, Emergency Fund Committee, 280 Broadway, New York, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700116 · POS - WWI - US, no. 362 (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). Frank Brangwyn died in 1956; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2027. 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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