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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
Teamwork Builds Ships
William Dodge Stevens (1870-1942) · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 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 William Dodge Stevens drew for the Publications Section of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia, printed by Forbes of Boston in 1917, 91 by 127 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
The Emergency Fleet Corporation built the ships that carried the American army and its supplies to France, and the Committee on Public Information's Division of Pictorial Publicity put its name to this sheet for the yards.
What to notice
Men using a rivet gun together, the title's three words set over them.
A ship, counted in rivets and in hands.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- William Dodge Stevens (1870-1942)
- Printer / house
- Forbes, Boston
- Campaign
- Production · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722566 · POS - US .S747, no. 1 (E 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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