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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, Uncle Sam's Right Hand
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 lithograph by an unnamed artist, made for Marine Corps recruiting in 1917, 69 by 50 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The headline makes the Corps a part of Uncle Sam's own body, his right hand.
What to notice
A Marine set against the outline of a hand.
A whole Corps, drawn as one hand.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Enlist · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700443 · POS - WWI - US, no. 402 (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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