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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
Make the World Safe: Enlist Now and Go with Your Friends
Arthur N. Edrop · Recruiting Committee, Mayor's Committee on National Defense, 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 Arthur N. Edrop drew for the Recruiting Committee of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, printed by the Hegeman Print of New York in 1917, 100 by 68 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The sheet makes enlistment a thing done together: enlist now, and go with your friends. Edrop drew a second sheet for the same committee, Volunteer, and Choose Your Own Branch of the Service.
What to notice
Troops with bayonets rushing over a hill.
A hill taken among friends.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Arthur N. Edrop
- Printer / house
- The Hegeman Print, New York
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Recruiting Committee, Mayor's Committee on National Defense, New York, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700145 · POS - WWI - US, no. 388 (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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