Sea training: The U.S. Shipping Board needs 50,000 young men
Poster offers free training for the merchant marine as sailors, firemen, coal-passers, oilers, water-tenders, cooks and stewards. Poster offers free training for the merchant marine as sailors, firemen, coal-passers, oilers, water-tenders, cooks and stewards. Printed in red, black and gray on heavy white paper. At center reproduction of painting signed: Worden Wood 1918 of ship captioned: A new American freighter. Poster promises graduates training on shipboard and a merchant marine job. At end of text: Recruiting Service, United States Shipping Board, Custom House, Boston, Mass. Henry Howard, Director. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.
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