Opening The Atlas
The next picture is on its way.
Opening The Atlas
The next picture is on its way.
The Posters That Went to War
The posters that sent a country to war, and the ones that kept it fed, quiet and paying for it.
1861–1945
Most of these sheets were printed by the hundred thousand, pasted on walls and worn away there. James Montgomery Flagg’s Uncle Sam ran to about four million copies in 1917, by Nicholas Lowry of Swann Galleries’ count. America’s Great War belongs to the Division of Pictorial Publicity, the committee of illustrators Charles Dana Gibson ran for the Committee on Public Information, and its sheets are filed here the way collectors file them: by war first, then by loan, by service, by artist and by printer. The Second World War follows the Office of War Information and the Treasury’s bond drives, public domain as US government work. Every piece is printed from the holding library’s scan and named to the source sheet, its printer and its campaign. Our print is a reproduction of that sheet, never the sheet itself. The enemy image is shown as history, and posters built on racist caricature or carrying the swastika as a party emblem are not sold.
551 published prints
The Patriotic Print before 1917
United States · 1861–1916
Civil War recruiting broadsides, the Spanish-American War and the Preparedness posters of 1915–16, all published before 1931 and public domain in the US by publication.
Painted Whiskers, our sister studio, will paint your pet in this school’s hand, after Your Country Needs You: Join the Navy!. See Yours Painted ↗
The Great War Poster
The Allies and the Central Powers · 1914–1921
Recruiting, war-loan, food and relief posters of 1914–1921, published before 1931 and public domain in the US by publication. A maker who died after 1955 is still in copyright in life-plus-70 countries, and the piece says so.
Painted Whiskers, our sister studio, will paint your pet in this school’s hand, after Help! The Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division. See Yours Painted ↗
The Second World War Poster
United States and Britain · 1939–1945
Posters of the Office of War Information, the Treasury and the armed services, public domain as US government work. A private maker’s poster from these years waits until its record shows no copyright notice or no renewal, and a British Crown poster waits for a Crown basis in the gate.
Painted Whiskers, our sister studio, will paint your pet in this school’s hand, after Be a Cadet Nurse: The Girl with a Future. See Yours Painted ↗
Broadsides, Cuba and Preparedness
Civil War recruiting broadsides, the Spanish-American War, Preparedness and Columbia, 1861–1916.
1861–1916 · United States
America’s Great War
America’s Great War, 1917–1919: the Division of Pictorial Publicity, four Liberty Loans and a Victory Loan.
1917–1919 · United States
Britain, France, Italy, Canada
Britain’s Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, France’s Emprunts de la Défense nationale, Italy’s war loans.
1914–1918 · Britain · France · Italy · Canada
Germany and Austria-Hungary
German and Austro-Hungarian war-loan and relief posters, 1914–1918: Hohlwein, Erler, Bernhard.
1914–1918 · Germany · Austria-Hungary
The Red Army Call-Up
Moor and the Red Army call-up, 1918–1921, a doorway to the Soviet Wing.
1918–1921 · Russia
America’s Second World War
America’s Second World War: OWI, Treasury war bonds, the War Production Board, the services.
1941–1945 · United States
The Ministry of Information
The Ministry of Information and the War Office, 1939–1945: Keep Calm, Games, Dig for Victory.
1939–1945 · Britain