Posters: Building Merchant Ships during World War I

OUR COUNTRY NEEDS SHIPS poster The Ships Are Coming poster

OUR COUNTRY NEEDS SHIPS
to carry our boys 'Over There' and keep them well supplied with Food, Clothing and the Munitions of War.... BE TRUE TO THE BOYS WHO ARE GIVING THEIR LIVES FOR YOU
Artist: Herbert Meyer
Dimensions: 24 x 18 inches
Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore and New York
United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation

The Ships Are Coming
YOU can help send this good news to our boys "Over There" by giving your employer a full day's work every day.... Stick to your job.... On the Job for Victory
Artist: Adolph Treidler
Dimensions: 25 x 18.75 inches
Thomsen-Ellis Co.
Publications Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation

 

Are You Working With Schwab? poster 2 Inspiring Cablegrams poster

Are You Working With Schwab?
Artist: C. Haimovitz, Public Ledger Co. Philadelphia
Thomsen-Ellis, Baltimore-New York ]
Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches
[Charles Schwab was Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation]

2 Inspiring Cablegrams
Chairman Edward N. Hurley cables: "... :
General Pershing replies: "...
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Creator William G. Krieghoff, 1918
Dimensions: 43.5 x 32.25 inches
Published Thomsen-Ellis Co. Philadelphia

 

Saving daylight! poster To everyone in this plant poster

Saving daylight! "set the clock ahead one hour and win the war!"
Dimensions: 26.75 x 17.5 inches
United Cigar Stores Company

To everyone in this plant...
Our country is depending on you
Artist: L. N. Britton, 1917
Dimensions: 23.75 x 17.75 inches
Thomsen-Ellis Co., Philadelphia
Emergency Fleet Corporation

Make every minute count for Pershing poster Rivets are bayonets : drive them home! poster

Make every minute count for Pershing
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
Artist: Adolph Treidler
Dimensions: 27.75 x 22 in.
Published: Philadelphia

Rivets are bayonets. drive them home!
Creator John E. Sheridan
Dimensions: 38 x 24.75 in.
Published Thomsen-Ellis Co., Philadelphia
U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet

 

poster Our export trade is vital Poster Shoot ships to Germany and Help America Win -- Schwab

Our Export Trade is Vital
Buy Victory Bonds
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Shoot ships to Germany and Help America Win -- Schwab
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Poster The Ships Are Coming Poster Teamwork wins
The Ships Are Coming
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
Artist: James H. Daugherty
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Teamwork Wins
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
Artist: Hibberd V. B. Kline
Printer:Baltimore; New York:Thomsen-Ellis Co.)
Date: 1914 - 1918
Size: 41 x 26 inches

WW1 poster To Shipbuilders! Poster Teamwork among all nationalities, groups and creeds made America great. That same teamwork now will speed our Victory.No other information
To Shipbuilders!
Our Country Looks to You!
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Teamwork among all nationalities, groups and creeds made America great. That same teamwork now will speed our Victory.
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[We are not certain this is a World War I poster]


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