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Description Lot 1895-20: “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: Background – raw materials. Foreground – the men who mould and use them. Composite result – winning a war. The three men are shown in the scrap yards of a plant of the mill. In that heap in the background, incidentally, may be that old bed spring or stove cover that you gave to the boy scouts a few weeks ago. 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@N06/25720088594 (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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