To skilled workers in engineering & kindred trades. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio ; Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London, S.E. – Vintage Wall Art
![To skilled workers in engineering & kindred trades. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio ; Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London, S.E., [London] : Ministry of Munitions of War, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b99ea150adcc-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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A window into the past: To skilled workers in engineering & kindred trades. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio ; Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London, S.E., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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To skilled workers in engineering & kindred trades. ... Get into the factory line & feed the firing line / Carlton Studio ; Printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London, S.E.
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This lithograph, issued by the Ministry of Munitions of War around 1917, makes its appeal in one line: "Get into the factory line & feed the firing line." It addresses skilled workers in engineering and kindred trades, whose hands were needed to make shells and other munitions as the army's demand grew. The Ministry had been set up in 1915, after shell shortages on the Western Front became a public scandal, and its posters were meant to draw skilled men from civilian work into war factories. The design was produced by the Carlton Studio in London.
| Created / published | [London] : Ministry of Munitions of War, [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Great Britain. Ordnance industry--England--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,043 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1686_To_skilled_workers_in_e_1917 |
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