Prints and Photographs Online Catalog NEW SEARCHHELP ABOUT COLLECTION Prints and Photographs Reading Room


Click on picture for larger image, full item, or more versions.
   

How to obtain copies of this item

TITLE:  Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use hose for washing your automobile. Do use water from a pail / Kerkam.

CALL NUMBER:  POS - WPA - NY .K47, no. 3 (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC2-5375 (color film copy slide)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a man washing his car.

MEDIUM:  1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [New York] : NYC WPA War Services, [between 1941 and 1943]

CREATOR:

Kerkam, Earl, artist.

RELATED NAMES:

Federal Art Project, sponsor.

NOTES:

F.H. La Guardia, Mayor - Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity - Patrick Quilty, Commissioner.

Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

DCRM(G) example, 1.A1 - prescribed punctuation

SUBJECTS:

World War, 1939-1945.
Water supply--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.
Conservation of natural resources--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.

FORMAT:

War posters 1940-1950.
Screen prints Color 1940-1950.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from color film copy slide) cph 3f05375 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05375

CONTROL #:  98516602



View the MARC Record for this item.


Prints and Photographs Online Catalog NEW SEARCHHELP ABOUT COLLECTION Prints and Photographs Reading Room