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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Now for Some Music
C. B. Falls (1874-1960) · The National Phonograph-Records Recruiting Corps, 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 C. B. Falls drew in 1917 for the National Phonograph-Records Recruiting Corps, 69 by 48 cm.
Why it matters
The text asks civilians to draft their slacker records and promises they will go to camp or overseas, a joke made with the draft's own word for the man who dodged it. Falls belonged to the Decorative Designers and made many of the war's posters, Books Wanted among them.
What to notice
One soldier unpacks a phonograph record while another looks on.
A dance record, called up for service.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- C. B. Falls (1874-1960)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- The National Phonograph-Records Recruiting Corps, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709060 · POS - US .F35, 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). C. B. Falls 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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