Collection items

And you? Sign the 7th war bonds! - Call for signin...

Poster, Illustration

In 1917 the Creditanstalt, the largest bank of the Danube monarchy and founded by the Austrian branch of the Rothschild...

Done by the enemy! - child's drawing

Drawing

This detailed drawing by a child called Hubert, who was probably about 13 years old, shows the destruction of an unknown...

Empress Zita Children’s day stamp, 1917

Photograph

Money from the sale of this stamp was used for charitable causes. In this case, Empress Zita was collecting for her ‘chi...

Every lady should wear the Black-and-Yellow Cross...

Illustration

This small graphic is the crest of the Black Yellow Cross, an organisation particularly active in collecting donations f...

Home of an Italian family in Veneto

Photograph

The official pictures of the occupied territories by the Imperial and Royal War Press Bureau are dominated by images of...

School essay written by a student about a fictitio...

Essay, Drawing, Manuscript

In his story ‘How I made a nightly attack on London with my Zeppelin’, the schoolboy I Biberl writes about being in a tr...

Street fight - child's drawing

Drawing

This pencil drawing is entitled ‘straszenkampf’, street fight. It is by a student probably named Villefort and depicts a...

The returning soldier - Poem by an 11 year old sch...

Poem, Manuscript

An 11-year-old schoolgirl, Anny Politzer, wrote this poem about a soldier returning to Vienna. He sees St Stephen’s Cath...

The sinking of an enemy ship by a zeppelin airship...

Drawing

In his pencil drawing ‘The sinking of an enemy ship by a Zeppelin-airship’, F Sorto, who was probably 12 years old, show...

Viennese! Get to know the Italians! – Leaflet drop...

Leaflet

Numerous propaganda leaflets such as this one were dropped out of planes or balloons over enemy lines. On 9 August 1918,...