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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 110

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 110
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 everworked before and the workmen, black men, were turningthe… … XXV THE WHITE AND THE BLACK HAMMERS XXV THE WHITE AND THE BLACK HAMMERS THE biggest hammer in the world, said the foreman,maybe—any way the Shop was amongst the most pic-torial of all those I have drawn devoted to shell making. Say, friend, said the workman, wont they let yeruse a machine, in war…

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

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