1943 Bonds Build Ships! BUY MORE BONDS George Picken Abbott Laboratories WWII

Date: 1944
Artist: Picken, George
Size (in): 15.5” x 11”
Size (cm): 39.4 x 28
Condition: B
Linen backed: No

This vintage original WWII poster is one in a series issued by Abbott Laboratories in conjunction with the United States Treasury Schools-At-War Program. This poster features the image a massive ship being built complete with cranes, smokestacks, wooden scaffolding and workers in hardhats with the title Bonds Build Ships! BUY MORE BONDS. The back of the poster has a small text box with information on the poster’s artist George Picken who had also produced murals for the WPA and post offices and other locations prior to WWII.

This vintage original poster shows moderate handling wear including two short quarter inch tears on the right margin, some bumping to the edges, a single pinhole on each corner and a light lateral crease line a couple inches below the top edge.  Overall condition is very good. Please see our other listings for more posters this WWII Abbott Laboratories Schools-At-War Series.