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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 · The Home Front
Ready: Join U.S. Marines
Haddon Sundblom (1899-1976) · U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1941–1945
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 Marine Corps recruiting poster Haddon Sundblom made in the Second World War, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-1618 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Office of War Information ran from June 1942 to September 1945 as the link between the battlefront and the civilian communities. Sundblom is best known for the Santa Claus he painted for The Coca-Cola Company.
What to notice
One word for a headline, ready, the whole recruiting case made by a painter whose trade was the advertisement.
One word, standing at attention.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Haddon Sundblom (1899-1976)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515283, local id 44-PA-1618), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515283 · 44-PA-1618
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 515283, 44-PA-1618): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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