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Americans! Join and Fight (1918) WWI U.S. Army recruiting poster by Edwin de la Laing, restored
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Americans! Join and Fight — Paper Print

Price range: $49.00 through $179.00

Edwin de la Laing’s 1918 San Francisco U.S. Army recruiting poster, restored: a soldier charges beneath the Stars and Stripes as a wounded comrade fights on.

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Unframed or framed, printed to order in the USA.

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Made to order. All sales final. Replacements or refunds only for damaged, faulty or incorrect prints reported within 7 days. Returns policy

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  • Free Standard shipping to the US
  • Printed to order in the USA, paper or framed
  • Quality promise: damaged, faulty or incorrect prints replaced if reported within 7 days (details)
Paper & printing

Giclée print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper: a smooth, natural-white fine-art stock with no glare, so the restored colours read true under any light.

Each print has a slim white border and is supplied unframed, ready for a standard frame or hanging clips.

Shipping & returns

Every print is made to order. Standard shipping to the US is free; Express is available at checkout. You will get tracking details by email when your print is on its way.

Because each print is custom-made, all sales are final and we do not accept change-of-mind returns. If your print arrives damaged, has a production fault or is the wrong item, tell us within 7 days of delivery with photos and we will send a free replacement.

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Which size should I choose?

11.7 × 16.5 in suits a desk, shelf or gallery wall. 20 × 28 in works above a desk, console or bed. 23.4 × 33.1 in is a statement piece above a sofa or in a hallway.

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Framing

Framed prints come in a solid wood, satin-finish frame in black, white or natural wood, glazed with shatterproof acrylic. The print is the same 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper as our unframed editions.

Framed artwork sizes are 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in and 23 × 33 in (the frame adds a little to each side). Every frame is made to order in the USA and arrives with a hook fitted, ready to hang.

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Restoration

Before & after

Drag the divider to compare the archival source scan with our restored edition. Tears, stains, fading and paper damage were repaired by hand while keeping the original artwork, lettering and colors true to the period.

Your print is made from the restored edition on the right.

Americans! Join and Fight — Paper Print restored edition
Americans! Join and Fight — Paper Print archival source
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Each size is shown to scale on the same wall. Prints are unframed and made to order.

Description

The Americans! Join and Fight poster

“Americans! Join and Fight” is a 1918 World War I recruiting poster for the U.S. Army recruiting office at 660 Market Street, San Francisco. Signed and dated by Edwin de la Laing and printed by the Louis Roesch Co. of San Francisco, it shows a soldier swinging his rifle overhead as he charges forward beneath a huge American flag, while a wounded comrade with a bandaged head kneels and fires beside him. Biplanes cross a pale blue sky and barbed-wire stakes line the ground below.

Printed in San Francisco for local recruiting rather than national distribution, it is one of the scarcer American posters of the First World War, and a bold piece of West Coast military history for a study, office, den or game room.

Read the full history of the poster and Army recruiting in 1918.

Restored edition

Restored from an archival scan of an original 1918 print. Yellowed paper, stains, folds and tears were repaired and the sky blue, flag red and sand tones brought back, keeping the artist’s flat poster colour and the original lettering true to the original. Drag the before and after slider below to compare.

Sizes and options

  • Paper print: 11.7 × 16.5 in, 20 × 28 in or 23.4 × 33.1 in
  • Framed print: 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in or 23 × 33 in, in a black, white or natural wood frame, ready to hang

Printed to order in the USA on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper. Free Standard shipping to the US. Compare the print sizes.

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See the Tank Corps’ famous black cat in Treat ‘Em Rough: Join the Tanks, or James Montgomery Flagg’s wartime Uncle Sam in Boys and Girls! Buy War Savings Stamps.

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