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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 Says: All the Kings in the World Can't Beat My Hand
National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York, sheet No. E-9, 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, issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement of 30 Church Street, New York, in 1917, sheet No. E-9, 63 by 47 cm.
Why it matters
The text plays the war as a card game: victory goes to the best partners holding the strongest cards, so pull together and call the Kaiser's bluff. Copies were supplied on request.
What to notice
Uncle Sam holding playing cards labelled Farmer, Consumer, Banker, Wage earner and Manufacturer.
A whole economy, fanned out as a poker hand.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Production · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York, sheet No. E-9, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00653052 · POS - WWI - US, no. 197 (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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