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The Posters That Went to War · The Allies, 1914–1918
Have You Any Women-Folk Worth Defending? Remember the Women of Belgium
British Army recruiting, printed in Dublin, 1915
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 chromolithograph recruiting poster of 1915, artist unrecorded, printed by Hely's Limited of Dublin under the code P661, 74 by 50 cm.
Why it matters
The reports from occupied Belgium were turned here into an argument aimed at the reader's own family: remember the women of Belgium, and join to-day.
What to notice
A portrait of a woman with a shawl drawn over her head, beneath the question to the reader.
One woman's face, standing for Belgium's.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Printer / house
- Hely's Limited, Litho, Dublin
- Campaign
- Enlist · Remember Belgium
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- British Army recruiting, printed in Dublin, 1915
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired). Maker's death year unrecorded; the EU and UK term (life plus 70) cannot be confirmed, so exposure outside the US stands until it is.
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