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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
The Tidal Wave: July 4, 1918, 95 Ships Launched
Joseph Clement Coll (1881-1921) · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 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 Joseph Clement Coll drew for the Publications Section of the Emergency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia in 1918, 76 by 51 cm.
Why it matters
The title records a single day's work: 95 ships launched on 4 July 1918. Coll was a pen-and-ink illustrator of adventure stories, Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel among them.
What to notice
A row of ships cresting a wave, and an eagle.
Independence Day, counted in hulls.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Joseph Clement Coll (1881-1921)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002708928 · POS - US .C678, 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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