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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
Uncle Sam's Birthday, July 4th, 1776-1918: 142 Years Young and Going Strong!
United Cigars, for Independence Day 1918, 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 by an unnamed artist, made for the Fourth of July 1918, 85 by 53 cm, with the name United Cigars on it.
Why it matters
The sheet counts the nation's age from 1776 and sends it into the field in the summer of 1918: 142 years young and going strong.
What to notice
Uncle Sam running with a bayonet amid bursting shells.
A birthday, kept under shellfire.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United Cigars, for Independence Day 1918, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652402 · POS - WWI - US, no. 296
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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