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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 122

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 122
XXVIISHAPING A GUN FROM AN INGOT XXVII SHAPING A GUN FROM AN INGOT WHEN the ingot comes from the furnace, it is put inthis press, deep buried in a pit, and the hot metal iscompressed into the shape of a section of a great Gun—then it is taken out and bored and planed and finally, afterabout a year… … XXVIIITHE GUN PIT. XO. ONE XXVIII THE GUN PIT. NO. ONE THESE Pits which I have drawn in Europe andAmerica have the greatest individuality of all theprocesses of war industry. The buildings are most im-pressive, towering, windowless, sombre without, veryspacious within, filled with strong shadows…

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

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