Jan 30, 2003 - Sale 1958

Sale 1958 - Lot 282

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JONAS LIE ON THE JOB FOR VICTORY. Circa 1918.
Circa 1918.
29 5/8x39 inches. W. F. Powers Co., New York.
Condition A-: expertly replaced top margin; repaired tears in margins. Framed.
Orange hulls are seen 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 World War I, this image, with its impressive display of technological might must have struck pride in the hearts of American workingmen. This is the rare, smaller format. Theofiles 270, Rawls p. 186-87.