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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 62

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 62
re seem tobe no workmen about—though the noise they make is terri-ble. The various parts of the ships lie about apparentlyin confusion, but the crane knows what it wants and whereto find it, and picks it up and carries it to its proper place.It is only when the men knock off that you see what… … XIIIBUILDING DESTROYERS. NO. TWO XIII BUILDING DESTROYERS. NO. TWO HOW the cranes minister to the ships, carrying themthe things they want, lowering them gently into theplaces where they belong and then hovering over the vesselsthey are building to see that everything is in its properplace—the…

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

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