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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
26,000 Men Are Wanted to Relieve the Watch on the Rio Grande
Gordon Grant (1875-1962) · U.S. Army recruiting, Recruiting series no. 4, 1919
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 offset print Gordon Grant designed for Army recruiting in 1919 or 1920, Recruiting series no. 4, 36 by 28 cm.
Why it matters
The full title opens with the news that no more men are needed for the watch on the Rhine, and then asks for 26,000 for the Mexican border. The Texas State History Museum showed the sheet in Life and Death on the Border, 1910-1920, in 2016.
What to notice
Soldiers with bayonets beside a river.
One river watched, another still waiting.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Gordon Grant (1875-1962)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Army recruiting, Recruiting series no. 4, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002712341 · POS - US .G732, no. 4 (B 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). Gordon Grant died in 1962; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2033. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; legal sign-off owed before any EU or UK order (the Dudovich precedent). Year set to 1919 within the record's 1919 to 1920: McCay's The New Education, Recruiting series no. 6, carries the Library's date of 1919, so series no. 4 is no later.
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