Your wartime duty! Dont waste water Do not let water run a long time to get a drink : – Antique Poster 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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Your wartime duty! Dont waste water Do not let water run a long time to get a drink : comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Your wartime duty! Dont waste water Do not let water run a long time to get a drink :
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The poster's message is simple and direct: let the tap run only as long as you need, and don't leave the water flowing while you take a drink. Issued in 1941 by New York City's Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity under Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia and Commissioner Patrick Quilty, it frames water conservation as a wartime duty, part of the national push to save resources as the country moved toward war. The Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration produced it as a silkscreen, a method the program's poster units used to make inexpensive, bold public notices.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | F.H. La Guardia Mayor - Department of Water Supply Gas & Electricity - Patrick Quilty Commissioner. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1939-1945. Water supply--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. Conservation of natural resources--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,769 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 448_Your_wartime_duty_Dont_1941 |
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