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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
Za naši samostatnost! Hrr na vraha! Za demokracii! Československá armáda
Vojtěch Preissig · Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York, Wentworth poster no. 7, 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 Vojtěch Preissig designed for the Czechoslovak Recruiting Office in New York, designed and printed at the School of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Wentworth Institute in Boston in 1918, 91 by 64 cm on the sheet, Wentworth poster no. 7.
Why it matters
The sheet recruited for the Československá armáda, the Czechoslovak army, and the Library of Congress gives part of its cry in English: Down with the murderers! Up with Democracy! Preissig, a Czech typographer and printmaker, trained at the School of Applied Industrial Art in Prague.
What to notice
Soldiers locked in hand-to-hand combat under the four short cries of the title.
A nation not yet founded, recruiting in Manhattan.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Vojtěch Preissig
- Printer / house
- School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Wentworth Institute, Boston
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Army
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York, Wentworth poster no. 7, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719423 · POS - US .P74, no. 4 (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). Title: the háček restored in naši, which the record prints as nasi.
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