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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, Emergency Fleet Corporation
Jonas Lie (1880-1940) · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 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 Jonas Lie painted for the Publications Section of the Emergency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia in 1918, 99 by 139 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The Emergency Fleet Corporation built the ships that carried the American army and its supplies to France. Lie, a Norwegian-born painter who recorded the building of the Panama Canal in thirty canvases, inscribed this copy to the Library of Congress in his own hand in 1918.
What to notice
A panoramic view of a busy shipyard, and the artist's inscription to the Library of Congress.
A shipyard at full stretch, signed for Washington.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Jonas Lie (1880-1940)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2003652813 · POS - US .L54, no. 1 (H 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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