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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Your Work Means Victory: Build Another One
Fred J. Hoertz · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 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 Fred J. Hoertz drew for the Publications Section of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia, 1917, 97 by 70 cm.
Why it matters
The design took an honourable mention in the citizen's class of the poster contest run by The New York Sun, and the Fleet Corporation issued it to the shipyards.
What to notice
Men working on rigging on the smokestack of a ship, and the instruction in three words: build another one.
One ship finished, and the next one asked for.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Fred J. Hoertz
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Publications Section, Philadelphia, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002711999 · POS - US .H63, no. 1 (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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