Britons, shoulder to shoulder. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio. – Antique Wall Art
![Britons, shoulder to shoulder. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio., [London] : Ministry of Munitions of War, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/38/3872812decad-L.webp)
(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 images capture their era like this vintage poster of Britons, shoulder to shoulder. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Britons, shoulder to shoulder. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio.
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The slogan sets the factory floor beside the front, urging Britons to "get into the factory line" so the "firing line" stays supplied. Printed in London in 1917 for the Ministry of Munitions, the color lithograph comes from a wartime effort created in 1915 to speed up production of shells, guns and explosives after shortages had exposed the army's dependence on home industry. Recruiting workers, many of them women who took up munitions work, was central to that campaign. The poster was produced by the Carlton Studio, a London commercial art firm, and its wording presents factory labor as service comparable to soldiering.
| Created / published | [London] : Ministry of Munitions of War, [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Great Britain. Ordnance industry--England--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,044 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1268_Britons_shoulder_to_sho_1917 |
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