Aug 02, 2017 - Sale 2453

Sale 2453 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JONAS LIE (1880-1940) ON THE JOB FOR VICTORY. Circa 1918.
29 1/4x38 1/2 inches, 74 1/4x97 3/4 cm. W.F. Powers Co. Lith, New York.
Condition A- / B+: tears, creases and staining in margins. Paper.
With the Emergency Fleet Corporation rushing to put as many ships into the water as possible at the outset of the war, this image, with its impressive display of technology, must have struck pride into the hearts of American workingmen. It "emphasizes the pragmatic organization underlying America's boundless strength" (Paret p. 80). This is the small format. Rawls pp. 186-187, Theofiles 270, Borkan p. 57, Paret 115.