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Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in America : reproductions of a series of lithographs of munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the United States government, with notes and an introduction by the artist (1918)

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia and London : J.B. Lippincott Co. · leaf 106

An illustration from Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in America : reproductions of a series of lithographs of munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the United States government, with notes and an introduction by the artist, 1918, leaf 106
XXIIICASTING SHELLS XXIII CASTING SHELLS SLOWLY the ladle moves, carried by the crane man,steered by the workmen, goggled and gloved—I hadno time to draw those details. Into each mould it droppedjust enough molten metal to make a shell head. And whenall the moulds were filled, a man from another… … XXIV FORGING SHELLS: THE SLAVES OF THE WHEEL XXIV FORGING SHELLS: THE SLAVES OF THEWHEEL NO composition could be finer, no movement more ex-pressive, no grouping more perfect, and yet all thiswas happening every day and all day in an oily, dirty,greasy, smoky shell factory where no artist had…

World War, 1914-1918 · Ships in art · Lithography, American

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