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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
Welcome Soldiers, Sailors, Marines: Your Uniform Is Your Pass
New York War Camp Community Service, 49-55 West 27th Street, 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 New York War Camp Community Service in 1918, 114 by 71 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The service told men in uniform what to do, what to see, where to eat and where to sleep in the city, and sent them to any Service Club or to 49-55 West 27th Street, telephone Farragut 6247.
What to notice
A man in colonial garb welcoming servicemen to New York City.
An old New Yorker, opening the door for the new.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Relief and Welfare
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- New York War Camp Community Service, 49-55 West 27th Street, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700126 · POS - WWI - US, no. 370 (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). Campaign set to relief and welfare: the sheet was issued for the New York War Camp Community Service, and the vein had filed it with the Food Administration.
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