Saving daylight ends for 1918 Sunday Oct. 27th Set your clock back one hour at 2 A.M. Sunday October 27th. – Antique 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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This rare vintage poster captures Saving daylight ends for 1918 Sunday Oct. 27th Set your clock back one hour at 2 A.M. Sunday October 27th. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Saving daylight ends for 1918 Sunday Oct. 27th Set your clock back one hour at 2 A.M. Sunday October 27th.
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Uncle Sam bids farewell in this lithograph, with the caption "Goodbye Uncle see you next Spring," and a clock in the scene signals the change. The poster announces that clocks would be set back one hour at 2 A.M. on Sunday, October 27, 1918, which ended that year's daylight saving period. The United States had adopted daylight saving time in March 1918 as a wartime measure to save fuel and extend evening light for war industries. The artist is unidentified, known only by a monogram, but the piece shows how government messaging reached ordinary routines during the war.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 68 x 38 cm. |
| Notes | Caption: Goodbye Uncle see you next Spring. Unidentified artists monogram. Title from item. · Clarence H. White School of Photography. Rockefeller Center. |
| Subjects | Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Clocks & watches--1910-1920. Daylight savings--1910-1920. Farewells--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,017 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 583_Saving_daylight_ends_fo_1918 |
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