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The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
What Are YOU Doing for Preparedness? by James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) · Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (Leslie's Weekly), July 6 1916, 1916
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
James Montgomery Flagg's 1916 image of Uncle Sam asking 'What are YOU doing for preparedness?'; a photomechanical print, 35 by 27 cm.
Why it matters
Flagg first drew the pointing Uncle Sam for the July 6, 1916 cover of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper under this headline. The next year the same figure became the 'I Want You' recruiting poster.
What to notice
This is the original question. The famous poster answered it.
The first draft of the best-known poster in America.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (Leslie's Weekly), July 6 1916, 1916
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2016651594
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 2026-11-01. James Montgomery Flagg died in 1960, so the work stays in copyright in life-plus-70 countries until 1 January 2031. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; look before any EU or UK order.
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