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Universal Current Events, Special Edition
Uncle Sam and a soldier, arm in arm.
What
A chromolithograph poster for a special edition of Universal Current Events, the studio's newsreel, signed J. Carl Mueller.
Why
The Library of Congress files it among its First World War posters and dates it between 1916 and 1918.
Notice
Uncle Sam and a soldier stand with an arm on each other's shoulder.
“The news, at the pictures”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Universal Current Events (1917)
- Country / studio
- United States · Universal
- Designer
- J. Carl Mueller
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. newsreel poster, chromolithograph, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs (LCCN 00652173)
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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