Motor Transport Corps training school Earn while you learn / Sgt. E.R. Euler, MTC 1919. – Historic Reproduction
(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 Motor Transport Corps training school Earn while you learn / Sgt. E.R. Euler, MTC 1919.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Motor Transport Corps training school Earn while you learn / Sgt. E.R. Euler, MTC 1919.
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Earn while you learn" and the promise to make a young man an expert mechanic set this poster apart from the war-era recruiting appeals that focused on patriotic duty. Its sergeant-signed credit line points to a training school run by the Motor Transport Corps, the Army unit that moved men and supplies by truck during the First World War. Because the Army needed large numbers of drivers and repairmen for its motor fleet, the school offered a trade skill that could carry over to civilian work. The poster's chromolithograph printing, with its bold layered colors, was a common and affordable method for mass-produced posters of the period.
| Created / published | Washington Barracks, D.C. : Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army, 1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Chromolithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster caption continues: Become an expert mechanic ; Learn the auto trade. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--American Expeditionary Forces.--Motor Transport Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Men--Employment--1910-1920. Military education--1910-1920. Vocational education--1910-1920. Occupations--1910-1920. Mechanics (Persons)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,805 × 4,720 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221080 |
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