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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Shoot Ships to Germany and Help America Win
Adolph Treidler (1886-1981) · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, 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 Adolph Treidler drew for the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, printed by the Thomsen-Ellis Co. of Baltimore, 1917, 64 by 48 cm.
Why it matters
The text quotes Charles M. Schwab and tells the yard that its ships carry food, clothing and munitions to the men over there, and that delay means danger.
What to notice
Two ships at sea, the larger painted in camouflage.
A shipyard told that its launches are shots.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Adolph Treidler (1886-1981)
- Printer / house
- Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore
- Campaign
- Production · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722576 · POS - US .T74, no. 8 (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). Adolph Treidler died in 1981; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2052. 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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