The tidal wave--July 4, 1918, 95 ships launched / Coll ; Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York. – Antique Print
(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 The tidal wave--July 4, 1918, 95 ships launched / Coll ; Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The tidal wave--July 4, 1918, 95 ships launched / Coll ; Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York.
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On July 4, 1918, 95 ships were launched on a single day, and this poster turns that Independence Day rush into a wave of steel. The United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation, which issued the piece through its Philadelphia publications section, was racing to build merchant vessels after German submarines had sunk Allied shipping faster than it could be replaced. Posters like this one aimed to show workers and the public that the nation's shipyards were delivering results, and this color lithograph was printed by Thomsen-Ellis Co. of Baltimore and New York.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Issued by Publications Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Warships--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,645 × 4,496 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223039 |
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