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Ships for Uncle Sam, Pennell's Shipyard
Joseph Pennell draws the shipyard.
What
A 1917 colour lithograph, 107 by 72 cm, for the official war film Ships for Uncle Sam, from a drawing by Joseph Pennell, printed by Ketterlinus in Philadelphia.
Why
Pennell was the great American etcher of industry, and the Signal Corps and the Committee on Public Information put his shipyard on their film poster.
Notice
The signature reads Ioseph Pennell del., and the imprint Ketterlinus Philada.
“The yard at war”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Ships for Uncle Sam (1917)
- Country / studio
- United States · Committee on Public Information
- Designer
- Joseph Pennell
- Printer / stone
- Ketterlinus, Philadelphia
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. government film poster, colour lithograph, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs (LCCN 2001700124)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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