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The Posters That Went to War · The Allies, 1914–1918
Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?
Savile Lumley (1876-1960) · Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, poster no. 79, 1915
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 Savile Lumley drew for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in 1915, poster no. 79, 76 by 50 cm, from the Library of Congress.
Why it matters
The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee raised Britain's volunteer army in the years before conscription came in 1916, and this sheet put its question in a child's mouth. The Library of Congress copy hung in The Mobilization of Imagery at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg in 2014.
What to notice
A pensive man with his daughter on his lap, while a boy plays with toy soldiers at his feet.
A child's question, put to every father in 1915.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Savile Lumley (1876-1960)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, poster no. 79, 1915
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons) · LCCN 2003663090
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: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired). Maker died 1960; public domain in the US by publication date, in copyright in the EU and UK until the end of 2030. Exposure noted as with Dudovich.
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