{"product_id":"teamwork-builds-ships-stevens-ww1-1917","title":"Teamwork Builds Ships 1917 | W.D. Stevens WW1 Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree shipyard workers press forward against the curving steel hull of a merchant vessel: the central figure operating a pneumatic rivet gun, a colleague in a flat cap looking on to his left, a crouching worker hammering a rivet home at the right. The hull behind them blazes a saturated orange against a section of midnight blue steel, filling the upper two-thirds of the composition with heat and concentrated labour. No sky, no shipyard context, no background beyond the work itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by William Dodge Stevens (1870–1942) for the Division of Pictorial Publicity of the Committee on Public Information, and published by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia, printed by Forbes of Boston circa 1917–1918. The Corporation was formed on 16 April 1917 and needed to expand its shipyard workforce from approximately 30,000 to nearly 400,000 workers. This poster was part of the resulting nationwide industrial recruitment campaign, one of the most coordinated graphic efforts in American wartime history. The work is referenced in Rawls p.76, Paret 114, Theofiles 256, and Borkan p.53, and is held in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress (Reproduction No. LC-USZC4-9941) and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (accession no. 1954\/2.35.92).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStevens built the composition around two flat colour fields, the orange heat of an unseen forge and the cold blue of assembled steel plate, set against idealised, close-cropped worker figures that anticipate the industrial photography of Lewis Hine and Margaret Bourke-White by a decade. The University of Michigan catalogue notes that the midnight blue against flaming orange creates a high-contrast palette not seen in comparable US posters of the Great War. The bold slab-serif headline across the foot panel reads as both instruction and declaration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReproduced from the Library of Congress archival source, which carries no known restrictions on publication. Produced on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper using pigment-based archival inks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":63809388183929,"sku":"VPA-13248-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":63809388216697,"sku":"VPA-13248-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":63809388249465,"sku":"VPA-13248-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":63809388282233,"sku":"VPA-13248-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":63809388315001,"sku":"VPA-13248-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":63809388347769,"sku":"VPA-13248-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":63809388380537,"sku":"VPA-13248-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Propaganda-TeamworkBuildsShips-USShippingBoard-1917.jpg?v=1782033104","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/teamwork-builds-ships-stevens-ww1-1917","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}