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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
The Service for Training and Travel: Join the Navy
James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) · Navy recruiting station, 1515 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 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 Montgomery Flagg drew for Navy recruiting in 1917, 59 by 77 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
The Navy took men from 17 to 35 and sold the service on its training and its travel. This copy is stamped twice with the address 1515 Arch St., Philadelphia, where it sent applicants.
What to notice
A smiling sailor beside the age limits, with the Philadelphia stamp applied twice to the sheet.
A grin, offered as the recruiting terms.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Navy recruiting station, 1515 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002712345 · POS - US .F63, no. 24 (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). James Montgomery Flagg died in 1960; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2031. 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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