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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Official United States War Films
H. Devitt Welsh (1888-1942) · Signal Corps, U.S. Army, and the Committee on Public Information, 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 H. Devitt Welsh drew in 1917 for the official war films of the Signal Corps and the Committee on Public Information, printed by the Morgan Litho. Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, 107 by 72 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The Signal Corps and the Committee on Public Information produced the government's own films of the war, and this sheet advertised them.
What to notice
A battleship with its searchlights flaring.
Searchlights, aimed at the box office.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- H. Devitt Welsh (1888-1942)
- Printer / house
- The Morgan Litho. Co., Cleveland, Ohio
- Campaign
- The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Signal Corps, U.S. Army, and the Committee on Public Information, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700143 · POS - WWI - US, no. 386 (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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