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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 · Before the Great War
Rally 'Round the Flag with United States Marines: Soldiers of the Sea
Sidney H. Riesenberg · U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 24 East 23rd Street, New York, 1916
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 halftone Sidney H. Riesenberg made for Marine Corps recruiting in 1916, sending applicants to 24 East 23rd Street, New York.
Why it matters
The sheet was made a year before the United States entered the war, and its caption already says your country needs you and now's the time to enlist. Riesenberg was known above all for his Marine Corps and Liberty bond posters.
What to notice
Marines in a landing party, under the line First in defense on land or sea.
Ashore first, a year before the war.
Provenance
- School
- The Patriotic Print before 1917 (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Sidney H. Riesenberg
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 24 East 23rd Street, New York, 1916
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652144 · POS - WWI - US, no. 110 (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). Sidney H. Riesenberg died in 1971; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2042. 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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