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  • The 'L' Press. Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun: Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw, 1918 The 'L' Press. Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun: Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw, 1918

    (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

    image: The interior view of a munitions factory showing the manufacture of 18' guns with munition workers. A figure in suit and bowler hat stands in the foreground. There is a warm orange light spread over the scene emitted from the forge in the right of...

  • To Prevent This - Buy War Savings Certificates Now To Prevent This - Buy War Savings Certificates Now

    (posters) Made by: Brown, F Gregory (artist) 1918-06

    whole: the title is arranged across the top and bottom, with the image central. All set against a black background. image: a scene from within a steelworks, showing brutal treatment meted out by occupying German troops on an enslaved civilian workforce....

  • Buy War Savings Certificates Buy War Savings Certificates

    (posters) Made by: Burton, Charles (artist) 1919

    whole: the image is placed at the top, held within a black frame, with the title and text below. All set against a deep blue background. image: a shipbuilding scene, featuring workers in the foreground and the bow and keel of a vessel under construction...

  • A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918 A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918

    (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

    image: The interior view of a shell forge showing the glowing hot shell cases emerging from the furnaces on the left of the composition. Munitions workers man the furnaces on the left; in the foreground is the back of a worker leaning over a glowing hot...

  • National Service - National Security - No Shirking National Service - National Security - No Shirking

    (posters) Made by: Unknown 1917

    whole: the image is positioned in the upper third. The title is separate and positioned in the lower two-thirds, in black. The text is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, also in black. Further text is integrated and positioned in the upper...

  • Every Pound Invested in National War Bonds Every Pound Invested in National War Bonds

    (posters) Made by: A J (artist) 1918

    whole: the title is arranged across the top and subtitle along the bottom, with the image central. All set against a black background. image: a shipbuilding scene, featuring workers in the foreground and the bow and keel of a vessel under construction in...

  • A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918 : erected during the War for Messrs. Steel, Peech and Tozer, Ltd., Phoenix Works,
Sheffield A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918 : erected during the War for Messrs. Steel, Peech and Tozer, Ltd., Phoenix Works, Sheffield

    (art) Made by: Holmes, Charles John (Sir) 1918

    image: A view of a steel works that sits next to a river or canal. Directly on the river bank is a box-like concrete building and a long redbrick wall, with men at work on a scaffold at the side of the building. Behind this scene is a large building with...

  • The Steel Converter at Woolwich Arsenal: The Tropenas Steel Converters at work in the Royal Laboratory Shell Foundry at Woolwich
Arsenal The Steel Converter at Woolwich Arsenal: The Tropenas Steel Converters at work in the Royal Laboratory Shell Foundry at Woolwich Arsenal

    (art) Made by: Hyde, William 1919

    image: The interior scene of a steelworks showing molten steel being poured out from a furnace. Steelworkers are handling red-hot shell casings in the lower left foreground.

  • A Corner of a Dockyard A Corner of a Dockyard

    (art) Made by: Allfree, Geoffrey Stephen 1918

    image: A view across a dockyard, with a stone tower in the centre of the composition and a large redbrick building to the right, which has a series of arches in front of it. In the left foreground is a large mound of earth or sand and there are also...

  • A Tug Of War. Girls v Men : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge A Tug Of War. Girls v Men : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge

    (art) Made by: Isaac, Nellie E

    image: a team of eight women dressed in blue work dresses and caps pull on a tug-of-war rope. A young man urges them on, while a young boy and girl watch from behind a barrier. In the background a crowd watches in front of two marquees.

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