Aviation Radio Chief Evans, USN, speaks at Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Mill, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, 1942

Lot 1895-7: “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: “I know now where we get the stuff for battleships and guns – and even radio parts. And with men like you producing this stuff we need and backing us up- we can’t lose this war.” Chief Evans speaks to the steel workers on his visit to the mill. Touring the plant, Evans got his initiation into a new battlefront where weapons for the Army and Navy are forged. Welder Woolslayer (standing, left) and Sergeant Vineyard stand by after the assistant plant superintendent (seated) introduced Evans to the audience. Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer, August 1942. Office of War Information Photograph. Courtesy of the. (2016/04/08).

Date

1942

Photographer / author

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

2,050 × 2,650 pixels

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