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Keep 'em going! / Ketterlinus Phila. – Vintage Print

Keep 'em going! / Ketterlinus Phila., [1917] — historic image
Keep 'em going! / Ketterlinus Phila., [1917]. Historic image from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few wartime posters name a cabinet official as their subject, but this one does: William Gibbs McAdoo, who was then Treasury Secretary and a leading figure in the government's Liberty Loan bond drives after the United States entered the First World War in 1917. The imprint credits Ketterlinus, a Philadelphia lithography firm, which reflects how much of the wartime poster work was handled by commercial printers. The slogan "Keep 'em going!" reads as a call to sustain the national effort, and the poster's placement on a railroad theme fits, since the federal government took over the nation's rail lines in late 1917 under McAdoo's direction.

Created / published[1917]
SubjectsMcAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters
Original scan3,000 × 4,506 px · prints to 10 × 15 in at 300 dpi
Reference10

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