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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
The Men Know, Home Folks Know: YWCA Hostess Houses in Seventy Camps
Clare A. Briggs (1875-1930) · YWCA hostess houses, 1918
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 of a cartoon strip by Clare A. Briggs, issued for the YWCA hostess houses in 1918, 36 by 56 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
The YWCA ran hostess houses in seventy camps, and the sheet borrows Briggs's strip Ain't it a grand and glorious feelin'? from the N.Y. Tribune to show what one meant to a soldier's family.
What to notice
A strip showing a soldier and his family in a YWCA hostess house, credited Briggs in the N.Y. Tribune.
A family visit, in the funny pages.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Clare A. Briggs (1875-1930)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- YWCA hostess houses, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00650747 · POS - WWI - US, no. 13 (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-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923).
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