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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
U.S. Marines: Soldiers of the Sea
J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951) · U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 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 J. C. Leyendecker drew for Marine Corps recruiting in 1917, 101 by 75 cm.
Why it matters
Leyendecker painted 322 covers for the Saturday Evening Post and 80 for Collier's, and the Arrow collar advertisements. Here the Corps sells a whole life: the photographs around his drawing show a Marine band, a five-inch gun crew, baseball, bowling and Marines learning wireless telegraphy.
What to notice
Two Marines in dress uniform at the centre, one with a rifle and one with a bugle, framed by sixteen captioned photographs of Marine life.
A recruiting office's whole brochure, on one wall.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719763 · POS - US .L494, no. 10 (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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