Our Country Needs Ships / Herbert Meyer / Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York (printer)
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- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.64
- Title
- Our Country Needs Ships
- Artist
- Herbert Meyer
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1882
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Maurice F. Lyons
- Style/Group/Movement
- poster
- Dimensions
- 61 cm x 46 cm (24 in. x 18 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- chromolithograph
- Physical Description
- Text: OUT COUNTRY NEEDS SHIPS to carry our boys "Over There" and keep them well supplied with Food, Clothing and the Munitions of War. The product made in this plant is used for building shops. The shops can be completed only as fast as the material and equipment for each ship arrives at the shipyard. If every man does a better day's work every day, the ships can be built faster. BE TRUE TO THE BOYS WHO ARE GIVING THEIR LIVES FOR YOU - United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation - Issued by Publications Section, Philadelphia
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- world wars
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 952 x 1283
- File Size
- 138 KB
- Record
- 1954/2.35.64
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"Our Country Needs Ships; Herbert Meyer; Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York (printer)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.35.64/1954_2.35.64.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.