Aug 02, 2006 - Sale 2085

Sale 2085 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JONAS LIE ON THE JOB FOR VICTORY. Circa 1918
39x54 3/4 inches. W. F. Powers Co., New York.
Condition B+: minor tears and creases in margins. Paper.
Orange hulls amidst the blue cranes and scaffolding of a busy shipyard. 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 technological might must have struck pride in the hearts of American working men. Theofiles 270, Rawls p. 186-87.