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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
The Navy Needs You! Don't Read American History, Make It!
James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) · U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 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 James Montgomery Flagg drew for Navy recruiting in 1917, 104 by 69 cm, conserved by the Library of Congress Conservation Division in 1973.
Why it matters
The Navy sold enlistment as a place in the history books. The Library holds a second copy of the design at 102 by 70 cm, and Flagg drew his Uncle Sam for the Army the same year.
What to notice
A sailor grips a civilian by the shoulder and points him toward battleships at sea, where a figure of Liberty waves the American flag.
History, offered as a job opening.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
- Campaign
- Enlist · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002712340 · POS - US .F63, no. 17 (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). James Montgomery Flagg died in 1960; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2031. 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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