Your Wartime Duty! Don't Waste Water Do Not Let Water Run... Men Photograph showing firefighters spraying water

Photograph showing firefighters spraying water on shops

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Serious matters were discussed by the male element but the girls decided to lighten the minds and open the eyes of all beholders by following the vagaries of the weather

photographed by Irving Underhill in 1912 on large format glass plate negative

Your Wartime Duty! Don't Waste Water Do Not Let Water Run... Men Photograph showing firefighters spraying waterYour Wartime Duty! Don't waste water Do not let water run a long time to get a drink : Do keep water in icebox instead. Created by Earl Kerkam for the Federal Art Project New York, NYC WPA War Services betweem 1941 and 1943. Original designed as a color silkscreen. Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a man drinking water. F. H. La Guardia, Mayor Department of Water