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

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IN THE LAND OF BROBDIGNAG: THE ARMOR PLATE BENDING PRESS

ONLY Swift never imagined, and Gulliver never saw, presses and ladles and chains and cranes like these, but I have seen them, and there is no imagination in my study of the press or the ladle. A press so powerful it will slowly bend the thickest plate. A ladle so big the men were lost in it.