Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America / Reproductions of a series of lithographs of munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the United States government, with notes and an introduction by the artist

by Joseph Pennell

XXV
THE WHITE AND THE BLACK HAMMERS

THE biggest hammer in the world, said the foreman, maybe—any way the Shop was amongst the most pictorial of all those I have drawn devoted to shell making.

“Say, friend,” said the workman, “won’t they let yer use a machine, in war time, is that why youse does it by hand?”