Collection items

Booklet 'Women's effort in war time'

Booklet, Illustration

The title of this booklet translates as ‘women’s effort in wartime’, published by the European Fashion Journal. It conta...

Cook book for the trenches

Book, Drawing

Today’s men are often able to cook well, partly as a result of the emancipation process and changes to role perceptions ...

Hurray! A war picture-book for children

Book, Illustration, Children's book

These illustrations are from the children’s book Hurray! A War Picture-Book by the magazine illustrator and commercial a...

Letter from Franz Marc asking his gallerist to sel...

Letter, Manuscript, Postcard

Franz Marc was one of Germany’s most important Expressionist artists. Together with Wassily Kandinsky and others he foun...

Little knitting book - Edited by the Patriotic Wom...

Book, Manual, Photograph

Work towards the war effort wasn’t only at the front line. Women at home knitted clothes to protect soldiers against icy...

Pictures from the war: a colouring book for young...

Book, Illustration, Children's book

With every pencil stroke, children using this colouring book experienced the brutal everyday lives of their relatives at...

The mill in the Ardennes

Illustration

This is the story The Mill in the Ardennes – one volume in a series of penny magazines. Penny magazines were cheap bookl...

The new way: war cooking creations without meat, w...

Book

Until the outbreak of war, the German Empire imported a third of its food. As a result of the British trade embargo agai...