Rivets are bayonets - Drive them home! / J. E. Sheridan. – Antique Wall Art
(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 Rivets are bayonets - Drive them home! / J. E. Sheridan.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Rivets are bayonets - Drive them home! / J. E. Sheridan.
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The slogan "Rivets are bayonets - Drive them home!" sets this poster apart by treating a shipyard tool as a weapon of the war. Issued in 1917, the year the United States entered World War I, it was produced under the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation, which had been created to build merchant vessels fast enough to replace cargo ships lost to German submarine attacks. The poster asks workers to see their daily labor on the hulls as direct support for the troops overseas, and it reflects the wartime push to make industrial work feel as urgent as the fighting itself.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 97 x 64 cm. |
| Notes | Division of Pictorial Publicity. Title from item. · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Boat & ship industry--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,041 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 328_Rivets_are_bayonets_Dr_1917 |
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