Shoot ships to Germany and help America win - Schwab / Adolph Treidler. – Vintage Wall Art
![Shoot ships to Germany and help America win - Schwab / Adolph Treidler., Philadelphia : Publications Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation, [1917] (Baltimore : Thomsen-Ellis Co.) — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fbbf82bf828c-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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Shoot ships to Germany and help America win - Schwab / Adolph Treidler. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Shoot ships to Germany and help America win - Schwab / Adolph Treidler.
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Rather than showing soldiers or battlefields, this color lithograph frames shipyard labor as a form of combat, with the slogan "Shoot ships to Germany and help America win." The text tells workers that the ships being built at the yard will carry food and munitions to American troops overseas, so that those men will have an equal chance to fight. The poster was issued by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, the federal agency created in 1917 to build merchant vessels in quantity, and Charles M. Schwab, the steel executive named in its subject headings, was a prominent figure in that effort. Its closing questions, asking whether viewers are "doing your bit" for their sons, speak directly to civilians at home.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Publications Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation, [1917] (Baltimore : Thomsen-Ellis Co.) |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 64 x 48 cm. |
| Genre | and the munitions of war. Without these ships our men will not have an equal chance to fight. The building of ships is more than a construction job - it is our chance to win the war. He who gives to his work the best that is in him does his bit as truly as the man who fights. Delay means danger. Are you doing your bit? Are you giving the best that is in you to help your son |
| Notes | Text continues: At this shipyard are being built ships to carry to our men over there" - food |
| Subjects | Schwab, Charles M.,--1862-1939. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Boat & ship industry--1910-1920. Ships--1910-1920. Camouflage (Military science)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,998 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223238 |
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