On the job for victory / Alpha Litho. Co. Inc., N.Y. – Historic Print
![On the job for victory / Alpha Litho. Co. Inc., N.Y., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/98805dd16d28-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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This vintage poster of On the job for victory / Alpha Litho. Co. Inc., N.Y. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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On the job for victory / Alpha Litho. Co. Inc., N.Y.
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Printed in New York by Alpha Litho. Co. around 1917, this color lithograph carries the title "On the job for victory" and was issued under the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation, the agency created to build merchant ships on a scale the country had never attempted. After the United States entered the war in April 1917, German submarine attacks had sunk large amounts of Allied shipping, so cargo vessels were in urgent demand. Posters like this one asked workers to treat shipyard and industrial labor as a patriotic duty, and its direct message is worth reading alongside that wartime pressure.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 71 x 52 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War work--1910-1920. Boat & ship industry--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,795 × 4,691 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221374 |
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