Learn to make and test the big guns - better yourself enlist and learn a trade in the Ordnance Dept. – Historic Print
(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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Learn to make and test the big guns - better yourself enlist and learn a trade in the Ordnance Dept.
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This poster sells skilled work rather than combat, promising young men a trade in making and testing heavy artillery through the Army's Ordnance Department. Printed in color in 1919, just after the armistice, it was the second in a numbered series of Ordnance recruiting posters as the United States rebuilt a peacetime force. The record credits Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Herbert Macnair, members of the Glasgow Four, a Scottish design circle known for its stylized, linear work, though the attribution is worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 49 x 63 cm. |
| Notes | Ordnance recruiting poster no. 2. Promotional goal: U.S. J22. 1919 U.S. B36. J2. 1919. · Mackintosh Margaret Macdonald 1864-1933 artist.Macnair Herbert fl. ca. 1890-1940 artist. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Artillery (Weaponry)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 238_Learn_to_make_and_test_1919 |
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