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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
Why Waste Your Time Looking for a Job When the Navy Will Employ You at Once
Clare A. Briggs (1875-1930) · U.S. Navy recruiting, 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 offset poster by Clare A. Briggs, made for Navy recruiting in 1918.
Why it matters
The sailor makes the pitch to the soldier in his own words: food, quarters, training, treatment, pay and promotion are all good, so think it over and be my shipmate. Briggs lived from 1875 to 1930, and the Library of Congress names him as the sheet's creator.
What to notice
A soldier and a sailor reading the want ads in a newspaper, the sailor doing the talking.
A job offer, made between two uniforms.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Clare A. Briggs (1875-1930)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Navy
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Navy recruiting, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00651852 · POS - WWI - US, no. 137 (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). Artist named from the record's creator field, Clare A. Briggs (1875-1930); the maker heading read Unidentified artist.
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