URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/37138
Collection Structure Poster collection >  2 inspiring cablegrams. Chairman Edward N. Hurley cables: "...We want you and the boys in the trenches to know that the men in the yards are going to the limit to provide in record-breaking time the ships that will carry more men, food and munitions to the intrepid American Expeditionary Forces." General Pershing replies: "The launching of nearly 100 ships on the Fourth of July is the most inspiring news that has come to us ... All hail, American ship-builders!"
Item Title 2 inspiring cablegrams. Chairman Edward N. Hurley cables: "...We want you and the boys in the trenches to know that the men in the yards are going to the limit to provide in record-breaking time the ships that will carry more men, food and munitions to the intrepid American Expeditionary Forces." General Pershing replies: "The launching of nearly 100 ships on the Fourth of July is the most inspiring news that has come to us ... All hail, American ship-builders!"
Collection Title Poster collection
Artist Kreig, Hoff
Issuing Body United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
Publisher Thomsen-Ellis Company
Date Created 1918?
Description Drawings of General John Pershing and Edward Hurley.
Subject(s) Shipyards Priorities, Industrial Merchant marine World War, 1914-1918 United States Shipbuilding industry Manpower Portraits, caricatures, etc. Pershing, John Joseph, 1860-1948 Employees Hurley, Edward Nash, 1864-1933
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Published Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Country of Origin United States
Dimensions Overall: 43 x 32 in. (109.2 x 81.3 cm)
Format Poster
Medium political posters
Color color
Color color
Hoover ID Poster US 4016
Record Number XX343.27514
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
Rights No known restrictions.