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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
On the Job for Victory
United States. Shipping Board · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, 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 by an unnamed artist, made for the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in 1917, 71 by 52 cm.
Why it matters
The Emergency Fleet Corporation built the ships that carried the American army and its supplies to France, and the Shipping Board paid for this sheet.
What to notice
A single workman in a shipyard, under four words.
A shipwright's shift, counted toward the war.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- United States. Shipping Board
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652937 · POS - WWI - US, no. 226 (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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