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](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/86/86ceca2d6144-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of 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.". The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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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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Here the call to action is a postcard: readers were asked to sign one and mail it to their congressman in Washington, and the record ties the poster to the United States Capitol. The appeal belongs to the campaign for daylight saving time, which set clocks an hour ahead in summer so that evenings kept more usable light. Congress passed the national law in March 1918, during World War I, when saving fuel and energy was a wartime priority. This example, numbered third in its series, was issued by the United Cigar Stores Company, a retail chain that used posters like it to reach customers.
| Created / published | [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 67 x 99 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United Cigar Stores Company. Saving daylight poster no. 3. |
| Subjects | United 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,682 × 3,761 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 641_Saving_daylight_Sign_an_1918 |
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