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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
They Give Their Lives. Do You Lend Your Savings? W.S.S.
H. Devitt Welsh (1888-1942) · War Savings Stamps, United States government, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 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 H. Devitt Welsh drew for the War Savings Stamps of the United States government through the Committee on Public Information's Division of Pictorial Publicity, printed by Sackett & Wilhelms of New York in 1918, 76 by 52 cm.
Why it matters
Savings stamps let small sums go to the war, and this sheet weighs them against the dead: they give their lives, and the question then falls on the reader's savings.
What to notice
Graves marked with crosses on a hill, which the Library of Congress likens to views of Calvary.
A hill of crosses, answered in stamps.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- H. Devitt Welsh (1888-1942)
- Printer / house
- Sackett & Wilhelms Corp., New York
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · The Division of Pictorial Publicity
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Savings Stamps, United States government, through the Division of Pictorial Publicity, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2003652826 · POS - US .W453, no. 2 (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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