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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. Navy: Help Your Country! Enlist in the Navy
Henry Reuterdahl (1871-1925) · U.S. Navy 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 Henry Reuterdahl painted for Navy recruiting, printed by the Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co. of Brooklyn in 1917, 104 by 70 cm, courtesy R. J. Collier.
Why it matters
Reuterdahl was the Navy's painter, a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve and an editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, and the sheet lets the fleet make the argument by itself.
What to notice
Battleships at sea, with a blank left for the local recruiting station.
The fleet, as its own recruiting sergeant.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Henry Reuterdahl (1871-1925)
- Printer / house
- Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co., Brooklyn
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Navy recruiting, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2003652807 · POS - US .R48, no. 3 (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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