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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
Wake Up, America! Civilization Calls Every Man, Woman and Child!
James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) · Mayor's Committee, New York, for Wake Up, America Day, 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 James Montgomery Flagg drew for the Mayor's Committee of New York, printed by the Hegeman Print in 1917, 103.8 by 69.8 cm on the sheet.
Why it matters
The United States declared war on 6 April 1917, and the sheet was made for Wake Up, America Day in New York thirteen days later, on 19 April. The Library of Congress showed it in American Treasures of the Library of Congress in 2002.
What to notice
Columbia asleep against a fluted column, in a Phrygian cap and a gown of stars and stripes, with storm clouds massing behind her. Flagg's model was the actress Mary Arthur.
A country drawn asleep, two weeks into a war.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
- Printer / house
- The Hegeman Print, New York
- Campaign
- Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Mayor's Committee, New York, for Wake Up, America Day, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 91726511 · POS - US .F63, no. 30 (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). James Montgomery Flagg died in 1960; in life-plus-70 countries the work stays protected until 1 January 2031. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; legal sign-off owed before any EU or UK order (the Dudovich precedent).
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