The gun pit: no. 1. J. Pennell - Public domain city architecture drawing

Drawing shows a view from inside a huge building where a large gun hangs from a crane over a flatcar on a track running out the door, workers stand around, outside is another train, rising beyond is a large ore crane.

Signed in lithographic crayon on lower right: J. Pennell.
Inscribed on mount: Transfer drawing for lithograph W. 491.
Inscribed on verso: 28.
Inscribed on verso: 46180 [beneath Library of Congress stamp].
Inscribed on verso: done/10 printed.
Lithograph published in: Pennell, Joseph. Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in America. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1918, no. XXVIII.
Lithograph published in: Wuerth, Louis A.. Catalogue of the Lithographs of Joseph Pennell. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1931, p. 182.
Object removed from mount.
Bequest; Joseph Pennell Estate; 1926-1937; (PR 06 CN 316.2476).
Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection.
Published in: Pennell, Joseph. The Adventures of an Illustrator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925, Limited edition, p. 315, with the caption "Gun dipping shop Bethlehem-with the big dump and great cranes in the distance for drawing which I was arrested some years before I made the lithograph 1917."
Needs surface cleaning. Needs tape removal (6 hrs.). Needs housing.