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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: Here He Is, Sir. We Need Him and You Too!
Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) · U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 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 lithograph Charles Dana Gibson drew for Navy recruiting, printed by the Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co. of Brooklyn between 1914 and 1918, 103 by 71 cm, the drawing courtesy of Life.
Why it matters
A mother brings her son to the recruiting station herself, and the poster asks for the reader too. The Library of Congress dates the sheet only to the war years, so the Atlas files it at 1918, the last year of that range.
What to notice
Uncle Sam shakes the mother's hand while she holds her son's: three figures linked hand to hand.
A son handed over, politely, at the door.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944)
- Printer / house
- Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co., Brooklyn
- Campaign
- Enlist · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 1914–1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 93510429 · POS - US .G52, no. 13 (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-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923).
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