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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
U.S. Marines, Soldiers of the Sea: Good Pay, Foreign Travel
U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1914–1918
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 halftone poster by an unnamed artist, made for Marine Corps recruiting between 1914 and 1918.
Why it matters
The Corps offered good pay, foreign travel and congenial employment, and showed how far the travel went: one view is the Marine detachment at the American Legation in Peking. The Library of Congress dates the sheet only to the war years, so the Atlas files it at 1918.
What to notice
Marines coming ashore with ships behind them, and around them a series of views of Marines in training, in class and at their recreation.
A posting in Peking, offered as a perk.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1914–1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652147 · POS - WWI - US, no. 113 (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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