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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
Stenographers! Washington Needs You!
Roy Hull Still · U.S. Employment Office, 1918
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 Roy Hull Still drew about 1918, printed by the Prudential Litho. Co. of New York, 76 by 52 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The government needed clerks as well as soldiers and issued repeated calls for stenographers; another sheet in the Library's collection claims a shortage of 5,000 and offers $1,100 a year. The women stenographers who served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France were granted veteran status by an act of Congress in 1977.
What to notice
A woman at a desk with a stenotype machine, turned away from the viewer toward the silhouette of a soldier and the dome of the Capitol.
A typist's war, fought within sight of the dome.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Roy Hull Still
- Printer / house
- Prudential Litho. Co., New York
- Campaign
- Women at War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Employment Office, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722567 · POS - US .S749, no. 1 (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).
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