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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Send the Eagle's Answer: More Ships
James Daugherty (1889-1974) · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publication Section, Washington, D.C., 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 James Daugherty drew for the Emergency Fleet Corporation of the United States Shipping Board in 1917, issued by its Publication Section in Washington, D.C., 146 by 99 cm.
Why it matters
The Fleet Corporation asked its yards for ships, and this sheet makes each launch the eagle's answer. Daugherty was a modernist painter and muralist who later wrote and illustrated books for children.
What to notice
A large eagle flies above ships setting sail for a distant shore in flames. The Library describes The Ships Are Coming, issued from Philadelphia, in the same words.
Every hull, an eagle's reply.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- James Daugherty (1889-1974)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publication Section, Washington, D.C., 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709052 · POS - US .D38, no. 3 (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). James Daugherty died in 1974; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2045. 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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