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Boys, we're backing you! Carnegie Steel Company subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation / Marie Wilson. – Historic Reproduction

Boys, we're backing you! Carnegie Steel Company subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation / Marie Wilson., [1917] — vintage poster
Boys, we're backing you! Carnegie Steel Company subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation / Marie Wilson., [1917]. Vintage poster from the Pittsburgh 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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A steel company is the sponsor here, and its message is addressed to the young men heading off to war: "Boys, we're backing you!" Carnegie Steel was a Pittsburgh firm that had been folded into the United States Steel Corporation in 1901, and by 1917 it was among the region's largest employers. The poster appeared soon after the United States entered the First World War that April, when mills producing rails, shells and armor plate became central to the war effort. Corporate advertising like this, drawn by the artist Marie Wilson, shows how industry tried to link its own work to the soldiers' cause.

Created / published[1917]
Medium1 photomechanical print (poster) : offset, color.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Offset photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. J7.J44. 1917.
SubjectsCarnegie Steel Company--Public relations--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Steel industry--United States--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,135 × 1,442 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219199

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