This image depicts three men working in a factory and a quote at the bottom saying "Be warned by our plight, ask Prussia for justice only when you are strong enough not to need to ask for it." While the quote is a very strong statement, I believe the strongest statement of who this picture is trying to reach is within the image itself. It is in black and white but still shows the hard working conditions and what these men looked like. Much of what it meant to be a man at this time is shown in this image. Strong and hard working. It seems like the image of the factory worker is a reach back into the past to show that manliness is not defined in the rich artistocratic way, but in duty and hard work. It seems this is also a reach to European men, something we havent really looked a whole lot at. Compared the British and American images it is a lot darker and seems to convey a different message to men.

I like to compare this image to the one that was presented in Special Collections last week. The image was the bright colorful one with the soldier walking back from battle with the quote "And they thought we couldnt fight." It is a different image of what men in American society were depicted as. War heroes coming home from war. The Americans were proctecting home and the society they knew. The Message image shows men in a dark, factory, almost to say this is what the new man is meant to be. It is interesting to look at two different images with different meanings of what manilness is to different people.