Tag: World War I
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Christmas in wartime: a German Christmas poster from around 1917 with an angelic fairy bearing presents and a sturdy soldier on the front.
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“An Austrian went to Radziwill and came right on to a peasant woman’s pitchfork,” Russian print by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, 1914–15, New York Public Library Digital Collections. The library has digitized five more prints in this series.
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Photograph: Female employees of the German munitions factory WASAG in their work clothes, 1916.
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Poster featuring a young woman in a dark blue (?) uniform at a switchboard, a mass of soldiers about to go into battle outside her window. Caption: “Back our girls over there / United War Work Campaign / Y.W.C.A.”
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I find this 1917 poster interesting because it seems to target urban, working-class immigrants. Besides the dress of the people waiting in line to lend Uncle Sam some money, there is the American flag held by the child, whose enthusiasm attracts the attention of the adults around her. Children, whether…
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Preliminary thoughts on war and gender in the 19th century: revolution, conscription, volunteers, professional war planning, and atrocities.
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Poster in orange, black, and gray tones: A stark drawing of a stricken young mother and her two children fill ost of the poster. Caption: “Hunger Knows No Armistice…”
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Pen and ink drawing of Mars, stabbed dead by a knife and lying on the globe, 1918.
