Aug 03, 2005 - Sale 2048

Sale 2048 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 748
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JONAS LIE ON THE JOB FOR VICTORY. Circa 1918.
383/4x541/2 inches. W. F. Powers Co., New York.
Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration in margins and image.
A bustling shipyard scene in which at least four new ships are under construction. With the Emergency Fleet Corporation rushing to put as many ships into the water as possible at the outset of World War I, this image, with its impressive display of technological might, must have struck pride in the hearts of American working men. This is the larger of two sizes. Rawls p. 186-87, Theofiles 270, Borkan p. 57.