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