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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
For Our Aviators: Send Us Something to Melt or Sell
C. B. Falls (1874-1960) · Treasure and Trinket Fund, National Special Aid, 259 Fifth Avenue, 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 Treasure and Trinket Fund of National Special Aid at 259 Fifth Avenue, 104 by 72 cm.
Why it matters
The text explains the bargain: the government paid for the metal, and the fund bought comforts for the airmen with the money. Falls, one of the Decorative Designers, is known for his posters of the First World War.
What to notice
An eagle in flight above the appeal for gold, silver and plate.
A family's silver, melted into comforts for airmen.
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
- Treasure and Trinket Fund, National Special Aid, 259 Fifth Avenue, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709070 · POS - US .F35, no. 1 (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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