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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
POSTERS - PRESS
GREAT BRITAIN
page 1
The scrap of paper - Prussia's perfidy - Britain's bond [...]
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Hanbury, Tomsett & Co., London, N.W.
Poster showing signatures and seals on a treaty, with lengthy text.
London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee,
Text continues:
The Treaty of 1839
(which the German Chancellor tore up,
remarking that it was only "a scrap of paper") said:
"Belgium....shall form an independent and perpetually neutral state.
It shall be bound to observe such neutrality towards all other states.
Germany has trampled on the Treaty she signed.
Can Britons stand by while Germany crushes an innocent people?
1914
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
No trespassing
Golfer John Bull, stands on the edge of land marked "England,"
looking out over a large body of water.
He holds a golf club and stares at the water with wide open eyes.
Markers indicate a golf course behind him.
Clubb, John Scott, 1875-1934, artist
Inscribed in pencil below image and crossed out:
A Timely Warning.
Inscribed on a sign at the water's edge:
Notice!
Germans and Austrians are requested to abstain from using these links
during the continuance of war.
J. Bull.
Inscribed on sign in water:
Belgium Only 60 Miles
Signed, lower right: Clubb '4
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974
1914
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
London opinion
"Your country needs you"
Print shows a front facial view of Lord Kitchener
with his arm and fingers pointing at the viewer.
Leete, Alfred, 1882-1933, artist
London : Printed by the Victoria House Printing Co., Ltd., 1914.
1914
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Are you helping the Germans?
printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex.
London : published by the National War Savings Committee,
1915
Text continues:
You are helping the Germans:
When you use a motor car for pleasure;
When you buy extravagant clothes;
When you employ more servants than you need;
When you waste coal, electric light, or gas;
When you eat and drink more than is necessary to your health and efficiency.
Set the right example, free labor for more useful purposes,
save money and lend it to the nation,
and so help your country.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Lend your five shillings to your country and crush the Germans
D. D. Fry
printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., Harrow, Middlesex.
Poster showing a German soldier crushed by a monumental coin
London : Parliamentary War Savings Committee,
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Germany's battle cry is "Germany over all"
And her Navy drinks to
"the day"
when she hopes to smash Britain's fleet [...]
We must crush this idea of "Germany over all"
Howard & Jones, Ltd., London.
London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee,
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Why bother about the Germans invading the country?
Invade it yourself by Underground and motor-'bus.
Easter – 1915
The Brothers Warbis
designed & printed by Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. London E.C.
Poster showing children at play in a spring landscape.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
German cruelty to British prisoners.
Justice cannot be done without your help.
Take up the sword of justice.
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printed by Hudson & Son, Birmingham and London.
London : Parliamentary Recruiting Office
Lord Kitchener says:
The Germans have stripped and insulted British Prisoners
and have shot some in cold blood.
The Germans act with the same barbarous savagery as the Sudan Dervishes.
The Prime Minister says:
We shall not forget this horrible record of calculated cruelty
and crime and we shall exact reparation against the guilty Germans.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Men of Britain!
Will you stand this?
78 women & children were killed
and 228 women & children were wounded by the German raiders.
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Poster showing a little girl holding a baby, outside a bomb-damaged building.
designed and printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London, S.E.
London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
1915
Wykeham Street, Scarborough, after the German bombardment on Dec. 16th.
It was the home of a working man.
Four people were killed in this house including the wife,
aged 58, and two children, the youngest aged 5.
Photo by F. Foxton, Scarborough
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
You have in your pocket silver bullets that will stop the Germans.
Lend them to your country by investing in the war loan to-day
printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex.
London : published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
If you were a German aged 18-50 you would be fighting for the Kaiser!
What are you doing for the King!
Toronto : Central Recruiting Committee, No. 2 Military Division
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Can you fight?
The empire needs every fit man.
If the Germans win, no home on British soil will be safe.
Wives, daughters, mothers will be at the mercy of the barbarian.
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1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C