Tout lacier et le charbon pour nos usines – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Tout lacier et le charbon pour nos usines, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tout lacier et le charbon pour nos usines
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Urging readers to "save all steel and coal for our factories," this 1918 French lithograph makes its appeal in the title itself. Signed by M. Héringfeld, the poster takes industrial smokestacks as its central emblem of national effort. By 1918, shortages of coal and steel had made economy a patriotic duty on the French home front, since both materials fed the munitions and metalworks that supplied the army in the war's final year. The poster is worth noticing for treating the factory itself as a symbol of the war effort.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 54 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Save all steel and coal for our factories. Signed: M. Heacuteringfeld. Promotional goal: Fr. J72. 1918. Item is no. 231 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BZZ · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Smokestakes--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--France. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,802 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1691_Tout_lacier_et_le_charb_1918 |
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