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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
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And they thought we couldn't fight
Victory Liberty Loan
Poster showing a wounded soldier on the battlefield,
carrying several German helmets as trophies.
Forsythe, Vic, 1885-1962, artist
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Keep 'em going!
Poster showing a German soldier fleeing from
an oncoming locomotive bearing insignia, "U.S."
McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941.
"Every bad order locomotive is a Prussian soldier.
Every live locomotive is an American soldier.
Let us get on top of the Prussian locomotives
and make American soldiers out of them."
W.G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads.
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
4 reasons for buying Victory Bonds
Poster shows heads of four men probably representing
the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria.
Canada : unnamed publisher,
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Only the Navy can stop this
Poster showing a florid German soldier,
wearing pirate skull-and-crossbones and brandishing
a bloody sword as he wades in a tide of women's and children's bodies.
Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist
1917
Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Enlist in the U.S. Navy
Your country needs you!
German military officer (possibly Alfred von Tirpitz) standing on submarine, next to flag with skull and crossbones labeled "Kultur" and "frightfulness," in New York Harbor, with Statue of Liberty in background.
Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Showing them up
see the Herald's enemy alien list
Silhouette of America shining searchlight beam on marching crowd of stereotypical German-Americans
(handle-bar moustaches, long pipes, and beer steins).
1917 April 12
Lithograph by W.A. Rogers printed in N.Y Herald April 12, 1917.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
The Liberty loan at everyman's door
Drawing shows female symbol of Liberty walking away
from a burning building where German soldiers lurk.
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Hold fast, everybody!
Mammoth (Germany) kicking free from Soviet Union while allies
"England," "France," and United States (Uncle Sam) hold on.
Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist
1917
Published in: America's Black and White Book / W.A. Rogers.
New York : Cupples & Leon, 1917.
Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Museum of Ancient History, Berlin
Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist
1917
"Wood Von Hindenburg" on exhibit sculpture or specimen
to right of mammoth with German helmet.
Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress)
Will it succeed?
German military officer (possibly Wilhelm II),
with dove sign "separate peace"
and trap baited with "honeyed words" set for bear with hat, "Russia."
Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist
1917
Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
The wolf and the lamb
"Belgium" on lamb.
Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931, artist
1917
Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress)
In her path
Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy
kicking the head of a German soldier labeled "Autocracy"
off a cliff as an angelic symbol of peace approaches.
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
1917
Illus. in: Life, 1917 November 8, p. 749.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
War rages in France
We must feed them
Poster showing refugees in a ruined street.
Townsend, Harry Everett, artist
1917
Text continues:
They cannot fight & raise food at the same time.
Denying ourselves only a little means Life to them.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Hand carving up a map of the Southwestern United States
World War I cartoon shows a hand in a gauntlet (decorated with the imperial German eagle) carving up a map of the Southwestern United States.
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are labeled "For Mexico."
California is labeled "For Japan " The rest of the country is labeled "For Myself."
In the spring of 1917, the British government intercepted and turned over to the United States a message
from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman to the Government of Mexico, urging Mexico to join with Japan and declare war on the United States.
Zimmerman suggested that this would be a way for Mexico to reclaim the Southwestern states lost during the Mexican War.
American outrage following the publication of the Zimmerman Telegram was one of the factors causing the U.S. to declare war on Germany.
Berryman follows the popular notion that the German Kaiser was the force behind German aggression.
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist
1917 March 4.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Every Liberty Bond is a shot at a U boat--Fire your shot today
Buy a Liberty Bond
Poster showing a shell, marked Second Liberty Loan, being shot toward German submarine.
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
"And the fool, he called her his lady fair"
Other title : Harlot of war
Drawing shows William II, Emperor of Germany, apparently suffering a medical emergency as he discovers that his woman friend, labeled "War",
is actually the personification of Death.
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
1917
Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...":
Charles Dana Gibson's Femme Fatale.
The portly gentleman is a caricatured portrayal of Kaiser William II, Emperor of Germany, in this imaginary tryst with a female friend labeled "War."
He recoils at discovering his "lady fair" is the embodiment of Death, as she beckons him to approach in all her grotesque, bejeweled splendor.
Not only did Gibson lead the Division of Pictorial Publicity from 1917-1918, for which he recruited the country's top illustrators
to aid in building support for America's war effort, he also drew anti-German political cartoons for Life magazine.
Gibson's title closely echoes a line from Rudyard Kipling's 1897 poem called "The Vampire."
Published in: Life, May 3, 1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Is it really getting on his nerves?
Drawing shows Uncle Sam standing and watching as a German soldier harasses a grieving woman with a baby in a graveyard.
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...":
Charles Dana Gibson Advocates for Intervention.
By posing his title as a question, Charles Dana Gibson expresses his frustration with Uncle Sam's lack of action
as he watches a German soldier harass a mother and child in mourning.
While President Woodrow Wilson pondered the nation's entry into the war,
Gibson published this cartoon advocating U.S. intervention as a double page spread in Life magazine
three months before the U.S. Congress formally declared war against Germany.
Gibson drew attention to German mistreatment of civilians in powerful political cartoons created before
and during the time he led the Division of Pictorial Publicity, a government body that recruited top illustrators to contribute to the nation's war effort.
1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
The last ditch
Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy pushing a German soldier labeled "Militarism"
into a ditch in which a skeleton awaits him with open arms.
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
1917
Published in: Life, 1917 March 22, pp. 484-485.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
His word of honor
Drawing shows German soldier making a promise on bended knee
to a female symbol of Civilization as a female symbol of Belgium grieves in a graveyard.
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
1917
Illus. in: Life, 1917 January 18, pp. 101-102
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C