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Poster: Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle
Poster: Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle - Help the "Y" Help the Fighters Fight - United War Work Campaign - November 11 to 18
1918
27 1/4 x 19 13/16 in. (69.2 x 50.3 cm)
Adrian Gil Spear
United States
(1885 - 1965)
Full Title:Poster: Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle - Help the "Y" Help the Fighters Fight - United War Work Campaign - November 11 to 18
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color lithograph
Credit Line:
Found in collection and acquired through the New York Museum Property Act
Accession Number:
2022.25
Location: Not currently on view
Twentieth century warfare demands that the blood of the soldier must be mingled with from three to five parts of the sweat of the men in the factories, mills, mines, and fields.
- Howard Coffin, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1915
The dependence upon American workers to support the war effort was great. In Lend Your Strength, a factory worker's musculature embodies the country's physical strength. The worker casts a soldier's shadow, correlating the sweat in the factories with the blood on the battlefield.
[Gallery label text, 2006]