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More culture : to save the civilization of Europe

German military official (possibly William II, Emperor of Germany

embracing another official, representing Turkey.

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

New York Herald Company, copyright claimant

Published in: New York Herald, Nov. 3, 1914, p. 1.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Cartoon shows a hairy ape-like figure wearing a German helmet

(labeled "Military Barbarism"),

crying "Hass! Hass! Hass!" (or Hate! Hate! Hate!),

standing over the relaxed figure of a kindly looking professor

 (labeled "The German as the World Thought Him")

propped up against books labeled "Art, Philosophy, Science, Poetry, and Ethics." Parodying the sculpture by George Grey Barnard

called "Struggle of Two Natures in Man,

" the cartoon compares the reported barbaric behavior of the German army during the First World War with the traditional view of the Germans as a civilized people.

Pease, Lute, 1869-1963, artist

Barnard, George Grey,--1863-1938

between 1914 and 1918

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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We offer you a full partnership : it is to laugh!

German military officer with foot bandage, "Verdun"

(possibly William II), and Mexican military officer, offering partnership to military officer, "Japan," standing on words,

"The Allies.

" Possibly referring to German plan to attack

United States' southern borders.

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

between 1914 and 1917

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress)

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The Kaiser

Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935, artist

Published in: "Pen and inklings" by Oliver Herford, Harper's weekly, 59:379 (Oct. 17, 1914).

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

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Invasion of Belgium by the "uncultured"

Drawing shows Uncle Sam carrying a basket labeled "Belgian Relief"

and an armful of clothing labeled "From the Plain People", t

aking a large step into the midst of a destitute woman and several children, victims of the German invasion of Belgium during World War I;

also shows in the background a German soldier sitting on a mound of rubble, holding a rifle with bayonet that appears to be dripping blood.

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

1914

Inscribed in pencil on verso: "Invasion of Belgium by the 'uncultured'" N.Y. Herald, Nov. 25, 1914 - p. 17.

 "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., April - Nov. 2017.

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress)

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Red Cross nurse standing at the railing of a ship,

has a vision of wounded soldiers across a stormy sea

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

United States. Committee on Public Information. Division of Pictorial Publicity.

Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...":

William Allen Rogers Pays Tribute to Wartime Nurses.

A moving vision of wounded soldiers needing care sustains a Red Cross nurse

on her storm-tossed voyage to the war front.

William Allen Rogers extols the courage and selfless patriotism of nurses

in this and other drawings that also specifically reference the dangers

they faced in German attacks on hospital ships.

He may have created this image for a poster as notes on the back of the drawing state it was "sent to the American Red Cross Second War Fund.

" Known primarily for his scenes of the American West, Rogers focused

on cartooning after 1900 and created poster designs during World War I.

between 1914 and 1918

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress)

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The war didn't "end in October"

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

Possibly William II, Emperor of Germany, facing spirit, "Winter."

1915

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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At least we know what flag they are fighting under

German military officials standing on submarine holding flag with skull and crossbone.

Man at right possibly Alfred von Tirpitz.

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

1915

Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress

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Those idiotic Yankees

Uncle Sam with blinders and harness labeled "solemn assurances"

leading German official, "Bernstorff";

diplomats, "Dumba" and "von Papen," watch from window labeled "Hyphen Club."

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist

1915

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

The term "hyphenated American" was published by 1889, and was common as a derogatory term by 1904.

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During World War I the issue arose of the primary political loyalty of ethnic groups with close ties to Europe,

especially German Americans and also Irish Americans.

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Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that.

 

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans.

Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad.

But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ...

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all,

would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans,

French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy

with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ...

There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American.

The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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President Woodrow Wilson regarded "hyphenated Americans" with suspicion, saying,

"Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready."

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Wikipedia source

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Ten little hyphens

Newspaper cartoon clipping from the New York Evening Standard, Dec. 8, 1915, with rows of spies and an anti-German poem.

Greene, Sidney Joseph, artist

Dec. 8, 1915

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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hyphen USA poster WW1 guerre 1914 1918 14 18 presse caricature
hyphen USA poster WW1 guerre 1914 1918 14 18 presse caricature
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