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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
Oh, Boy! That's the Girl! The Salvation Army Lassie: Keep Her on the Job
George M. Richards (born 1880) · Salvation Army, United War Work Campaign, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 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 George M. Richards drew for the Committee on Public Information's Division of Pictorial Publicity, printed by the Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation of New York in 1918, 102 by 76 cm.
Why it matters
Its caption ties it to the United War Work Campaign of 11 to 18 November 1918, which opened on the day of the Armistice. The Library of Congress holds a second version of the poster that carries the artist's signature.
What to notice
A young woman in uniform carries a tray of doughnuts while a soldier, a doughnut in his hand, gestures toward her in approval. The Pictorial Publicity monogram is on the sheet.
A tray of doughnuts, honoured like a medal.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- George M. Richards (born 1880)
- Printer / house
- The Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, New York
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare · Women at War · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Salvation Army, United War Work Campaign, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719418 · POS - US .P82, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. 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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