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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
Rivets Are Bayonets: Drive Them Home!
John E. Sheridan · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 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 John E. Sheridan drew for the Emergency Fleet Corporation through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, printed by the Thomsen-Ellis Company of Baltimore in 1917, 97 by 64 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The yards were told that each rivet counted like a bayonet in France. Sheridan had designed posters for athletic events at Georgetown, his own college, and at other colleges before the war.
What to notice
A man using a rivet gun, with the silhouette of a soldier behind him.
A riveter and a soldier, one stroke apiece.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- John E. Sheridan
- Printer / house
- Thomsen-Ellis Company, Baltimore
- Campaign
- Production · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722565 · POS - US .S47, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
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. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923).
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