DW Image # 73: Production poster in factory “Christmas Greetings to Berlin”, circa 1918
Scope and Contents
Production schedule poster hanging in the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company. The main focus of the photograph is a production poster hanging above an office in a Dayton-Wright Airplane Company factory, circa 1918. The poster shows a De Havilland DH-4 slowly climbing up into a sky headed for Berlin. Hash marks show numbers up to 4,000 and dates of expected production deadlines. The title of the poster is "Christmas Greetings to Berlin." On the poster cities in Europe are highlighted and anti-aircraft bursts surround the DH-4. The DH-4 is set just above 2,000 at October 8, 1918. Below the poster Dayton-Wright employees work in a small office.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1918
Creator
- From the Collection: Dayton-Wright Airplane Company (Organization)
Restrictions on Access
Please use CORE Scholar, the campus online repository at http://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms152_photographs/ , to view the images for reference.
Extent
1 item(s)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Description
8x10 Glass plate negative
General
View this item (ms152_073) online in CORE Scholar: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms152_photographs/73.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Wright State University Libraries
Special Collections and Archives
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton OH 45435-0001 USA
937-775-2092
library-archives@wright.edu
