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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
Pull Together, Men: The Navy Needs Us
Paul R. Boomhower · City of Boston Committee on Public Safety, 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 Paul R. Boomhower drew for Navy recruiting in 1917, printed by the Smith & Porter Press of Boston for the City of Boston Committee on Public Safety, 56 by 36 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
Of the Boston committee's Navy sheets, this is the one that speaks in the first person plural: the Navy needs us.
What to notice
Sailors rowing a boat together, the pull of the title made literal.
A boat crew, standing in for a country.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Paul R. Boomhower
- Printer / house
- Smith & Porter Press, Boston
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- City of Boston Committee on Public Safety, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002699358 · POS - WWI - US, no. 448 (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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