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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
Put the Pennant Beside the Flag: Both Spell Victory
C. B. Falls (1874-1960) · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 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 for the Publications Section of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia, 1917, 102 by 144 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
The Emergency Fleet Corporation built the ships that carried the army and its supplies to France, and this sheet ranks its pennant with the national flag. Falls, a member of the Decorative Designers, is known above all for his First World War posters.
What to notice
The United States flag and the pennant of the U.S. Shipping Board, flown together across a broad sheet.
A shipyard's pennant, promoted to the flagstaff.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- C. B. Falls (1874-1960)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709050 · POS - US .F35, no. 18 (E 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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