May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 336

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Twice a Patriot! Poster, 40 x 28 1/2 inches; folds, one small puncture in image area, 4 short closed tears with tape repairs on verso. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1943

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A patriotic poster by the War Production Board honoring Private Obie Bartlett, who lost his arm at Pearl Harbor. He is shown here "at work welding in a West Coast shipyard," with his quote: "Sometimes I feel my job here is as important as the one I had to leave."