A successful workman – Vintage 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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A successful workman 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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A Cleveland factory worker who lost an arm in an industrial accident stands at the center of this 1919 poster, shown wearing a substitute arm he designed himself and using it on the job. The caption presents him as proof that determination can carry a disabled worker back into paid labor, but it adds that most men need formal training to get there. The poster promoted an exhibit by the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind, part of the wartime and postwar effort to retrain injured veterans and civilians for work.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print (poster) : halftone. |
| Genre | Portraits 1910-1920.Exhibit posters 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Poster caption: This man who lost an arm in an industrial accident in Cleveland, invented a good substitute arm, wears it at work, and uses it in earning his living. He has made good by his own unaided efforts. The average man, however, needs a lift in the way of training. Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. |
| Subjects | Institute for the Crippled and Disabled--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Medical aspects. Amputees--1910-1920. Artificial limbs--1910-1920. Machinery--1910-1920. Handicapped persons--Employment--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,800 × 4,716 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 165_A_successful_workman_1919 |
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