Your Work Means Victory. Build Another One.
Title
Your Work Means Victory . Build Another One .
Creator(s)
Hoertz, Frederick J., 1899-1977, artist.
Contributor(s)
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, publisher. Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company, printer.
Physical description
1 print on paper : lithograph , color ; sheet 97 x 71 cm .
Publishing Details
Philadelphia , Pa . : Issued by Publications Section , Emergency Fleet Corporation ; [Printed by] Ketterlinus Phila. , [1917]
Wall Label
In 1917 , the American shipping industry was woefully unprepared to manufacture the large number of ships necessary to prosecute the war . The Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) , the commercial branch of the US Shipping Board , was established in April 1917 to address the shortage . Its mission was “to build a bridge to France” by creating a large merchant fleet to transport supplies and soldiers to France . The EFC urged workers in shipbuilding plants to join the “great industrial army” at home and build more and better ships in the “second line trenches.” To inspire the shipbuilders , the EFC held a poster competition in conjunction with the New York Sun . Artists were asked to create posters that would “wield a weapon of tremendous power.. . and put fresh courage into every man who fights for the flag , whether he is battling with good American steel in the form of bullets and bayonets or in shaping the same steel.. . into ships....” The competition had several different classes and offered prizes amounting to $1,000 . As can be seen in the lower left corner of this poster , the marine painter and lithographer Fred J . Hoertz won an honorable mention in the Citizens Class for Your Work Means Victory . The first prize in the Citizens Class went to a little known artist named Edward Hopper .
Summary
Poster showing men working on rigging on the smokestack of a ship .
Notes
Artist's name at lower right of image . Publisher's statement at bottom , center of image . Printer's statement at lower right of sheet . At lower left of sheet : This poster design received an honorable mention (citizen's class) in the poster contest conducted by "The New York Sun. " Exhibited in "Over Here: World War I Posters from around the World " held at the Boston Athenaeum , September 10 , 2014 - January 31 , 2015 .
Local notes
Gift ; Bartlett H . Hayes ; July 1985 ; #1985.31 (am . no.337)
Country of origin
United_States_USA
Link to library catalog
http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=505223
Link to Exhibit Page
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/over-here-wwi-posters-from-around-the-world
Provenance
Hayes , Bartlett H. , 1904-1988 , donor .
Subject
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation--Posters. World War, 1914-1918--United States--Posters. World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, American--Posters. World War, 1914-1918--War work--United States--Posters. Shipbuilding--United States--Pictorial works.
Genre terms
War posters--United States--1910-1920. Lithographs--United States--1910-1920. Chromolithographs--United States--1910-1920.
Location/Call number
Prints and Photographs Dept. (Appointment required) D 8A9ZU Usu.am.(no.337)
Source
American 8.tif
Rights
Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. May not be reproduced or quoted without written permission. For more information, see http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/46
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