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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Marine Corps Week, June 10 to 16: Join the U.S. Marines
U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 24 East 23d Street, 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 by an unnamed artist, made for Marine Corps Week in June 1917, 62 by 44 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The week sent recruits to 24 East 23d Street, New York, and sold the Corps as the soldiers that go to sea, where there's action.
What to notice
A Marine at attention, with a small scene of Marines on the deck of a battleship.
One week in June, given to the Corps.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 24 East 23d Street, New York, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700137 · POS - WWI - US, no. 381 (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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