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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Ships for Uncle Sam: Official United States War Film
Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) · Signal Corps, U.S. Army, and the Committee on Public Information, 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 illustrated with a Joseph Pennell drawing of a shipyard, produced by the Signal Corps and the Committee on Public Information in 1917 to bill an official war film, 107 by 72 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The government filmed its own war effort, and this picture was about the yards. Pennell was a draftsman, etcher and lithographer drawn to industrial scenes; he studied under Thomas Eakins and was later influenced by Whistler.
What to notice
A shipyard in Pennell's line, put to work advertising the film.
A shipyard, billed like a picture show.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Joseph Pennell (1857-1926)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Signal Corps, U.S. Army, and the Committee on Public Information, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700124 · POS - WWI - US, no. 368 (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-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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