Teamwork builds ships / W. D. Stevens. – Historic Print
![Teamwork builds ships / W. D. Stevens., Philadelphia : Publications Section, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, [1917] (Boston : Forbes) — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/49/49456380a437-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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Teamwork builds ships / W. D. Stevens.
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Teamwork builds ships" was issued in 1917 by the Publications Section of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, the agency created that year to expand American merchant shipbuilding after the country entered the First World War. German submarine attacks had sunk large numbers of Allied merchant vessels, and the nation needed far more hulls than its yards could produce. The poster, a color lithograph by W. D. Stevens, was printed in Boston by Forbes, and its message asks workers to see shipbuilding as a shared effort rather than a series of separate trades.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Publications Section, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, [1917] (Boston : Forbes) |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 91 x 127 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Division of Pictorial Publicity. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Boat & ship industry--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,037 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223245 |
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