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Saving daylight!" Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congressman at Washington and help make it a national law to set the clock one hour ahead." – Vintage Wall Art

Saving daylight!" Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congressman at Washington and help make it a national law to set the clock one hour ahead.", [1918] — vintage poster
Saving daylight!" Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congressman at Washington and help make it a national law to set the clock one hour ahead.", [1918]. Vintage poster from the U.S. Capitol 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 window into the past: Saving daylight!" Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congressman at Washington and help make it a national law to set the clock one hour ahead.", preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Saving daylight!" Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congressman at Washington and help make it a national law to set the clock one hour ahead."

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A 1918 color lithograph turns lawmaking into a small civic task: fill out a postcard and mail it to your congressman in Washington. Issued by the United Cigar Stores Company as the third poster in its "Saving Daylight" series, it urges readers to push for a national law setting the clock one hour ahead. Daylight saving was a wartime measure meant to conserve fuel and lengthen evening light for industry, and Congress adopted it nationally that March. The Capitol shown in the subject headings stands in for the legislators whose votes the campaign hoped to influence.

Created / published[1918]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 67 x 99 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
NotesUnited Cigar Stores Company. Saving daylight poster no. 3.
SubjectsUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. Correspondence--United States--1910-1920. Postcards--1910-1920. Daylight savings--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,343 × 2,266 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221583

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