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Description Lot 1895-1: “A Poster Comes to Life”. This photograph, one is series, shows Sergeant French L. Vineyard, USA; George Woolslayer, welder; and Aviation Radio Chief John Marshall Evans, USN, at the Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Mill, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, during the process of the creation of a WWII poster that they posed for. Note Chief Evans wore an E-6 and below uniform due to the poster image. Shown: The letter that started the ball rolling. Welder George Woolslayer writes the Office of War Information asking for information about his two poster colleagues. “I want to tell you that I makes me quite proud to be part of a war poster,” wrote Woolslayer. “Can you let me have the name of the soldier and sailor. I feel I’d like to know them,” Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer, August 1942. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/04/08).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/25720097204 (archive). It was reviewed on 10 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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