SGT Vineyard, George Woolslayer, and ACRM Evans with WWII poster, 1942

Lot 1895-4: “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: Sergeant French L. Vineyard; welder George Woolslayer; and Aviation Radio Chief John Marshall Evans pose before the poster which has made their faces nationally known. The poster before which they stand is displayed in the plant where Woolslayer works. 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

poster

Original size

2,680 × 2,026 pixels

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