This poster was intended to recruit workers to the Watervliet Arsenal, just north of Albany, New York, during World War I; it shows two muscular men working on a cannon base as others in the background hoist the cannon piece onto it with ropes. The arsenal was established during the War of 1812 and is the country’s oldest manufacturing arsenal in continuous operation. The Brussels-born artist Edward P. Buyck fought with the Belgian forces during World War I but after he was wounded, emigrated to the United States where he became a citizen in 1918. He enlisted in the army and served at Camp Mead and at the Watervliet Arsenal, also producing recruitment posters for the military and propaganda posters for the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A.