Aug 08, 2024 - Sale 2676

Sale 2676 - Lot 50

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

TWICE A PATRIOT! 1943.


40x28½ inches, 101½x72¼ cm. U.S. Government Printing Office, [Washington, D.C.]
Condition A-: small loss at right margin; minor tears at edges; vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.

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."

Pollack p. 12.