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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
Turn to the Right! Join the U.S. Navy, Your First Line of Defense
U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 225 West 42nd Street, New York, 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 by an unidentified artist for Navy recruiting in 1917, 101 by 72 cm, stamped for the U.S. Navy Recruiting Station at 225 West 42nd Street, New York, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The Navy called itself the first line of defense, and this sheet puts its call as a picture puzzle.
What to notice
A signpost pointing to the right, built as a rebus: the letter i in right is drawn as an eye.
A pun with an eye, pointing the way to sea.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 225 West 42nd Street, New York, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700442 · POS - WWI - US, no. 400 (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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