Learn to adjust your respirator correct and quick. Don't breathe while doing it, and this won't happen to you / W. G. Thayer. – Antique Wall Art
![Learn to adjust your respirator correct and quick. Don't breathe while doing it, and this won't happen to you / W. G. Thayer., [S.l.] : Chemical Warfare Service, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c1/c10ab0379dad-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Learn to adjust your respirator correct and quick. Don't breathe while doing it, and this won't happen to you / W. G. Thayer.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Learn to adjust your respirator correct and quick. Don't breathe while doing it, and this won't happen to you / W. G. Thayer.
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The poster's message is a lesson in speed and technique: a soldier should fit his respirator correctly and quickly, and hold his breath while doing it. W. G. Thayer's color lithograph reflects the danger of gas warfare, which became a deadly reality when German forces released chlorine at Ypres in April 1915. Early protection was crude, often cloth pads soaked in chemicals, so drills like this one could decide whether a soldier survived a gas attack.
| Created / published | [S.l.] : Chemical Warfare Service, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 74 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Casualties--Great Britain. Gas masks--1910-1920. Gas warfare--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,961 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1018_Learn_to_adjust_your_re_1915 |
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