20 at home to 1 in the trenches – Vintage Wall Art
![20 at home to 1 in the trenches, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9e/9e95da7c9a8f-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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Step back in time with 20 at home to 1 in the trenches, a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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20 at home to 1 in the trenches
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The poster's headline, "20 at home to 1 in the trenches," puts a number on the war effort: it claims that six to twenty workers at home are needed to equip and maintain a single American soldier at the front. Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement from its office on Church Street in New York, it was printed in 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 63 x 47 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title continues: It takes the best co-operative efforts of from six to twenty workers at home to properly equip and maintain one American soldier at the front. [...] With consistent help and encouragement for their wage-earning partners and themselves, from all classes of the people, American industry can and will win this war for human liberty. Breeders of industrial war at home must be eliminated. National co-operation is the slogan to insure victory for Democracy over Autocracy. Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York City. Copies supplied on request. No. E-7. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War work--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,757 × 4,697 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1172_20_at_home_to_1_in_the_1917 |
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