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Advert for Greys Cigarettes

Advertisement, Illustration, Image

What is it? This advert for cigarettes uses a combined cavalry and infantry charge as the core of its visual element. Ci...

Advertisement for Perrier Water

Advertisement, Illustration, Image

What is it? Advertisements were a common feature of publications about and commemorating the actions of troops in the Fi...

After centuries of struggle and matyrdom Italy bre...

Poster, Illustration

This is a print showing Vittorio Emanuele III on a horse encouraging his bersaglieri (marksmen) to assault and cross the...

Allegory of the United States of America

Poster, Illustration

This is a print showing a a woman with the flag of the United States of America in one hand. At the bottom of the image...

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...

Anything / Everything to win! A Russian poster

Poster, Illustration

In World War One, for the first time, whole nations and not merely professional armies were in mortal combat. Propaganda...

Arch-enemy, a Russian poster

Poster, Illustration

In World War One, for the first time, whole nations and not merely professional armies were in mortal combat. Propaganda...

'Are we afraid? No!' A propaganda postcard depicti...

Postcard, Illustration

What is this?  The start of the First World War saw the publication of large amounts of supportive, patriotic ephemera d...

Battle of the Yser, 1914

Postcard, Illustration

This postcard depicts the cruelty of the Battle of the Yser in October 1914. It shows an elderly farmer with a dead cow,...

Before Antwerp 1914: the Battle of Dendermonde

Postcard, Illustration

This postcard shows soldiers fighting in Dendermonde. The Belgian cities of Dendermonde and Leuven (Louvain) were some o...

Belgian soldiers defending Barchon, Liege in Belgi...

Postcard, Photograph

At the beginning of August 1914, the German army marched on Liège in Belgium. Barchon is a Belgian village in the...

Belgians are you ready?

Postcard, Illustration

This illustration shows a confrontation between a rooster (symbol of Wallonia, the southern French-speaking region of Be...

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...

‘Bovril gives strength to win’, an advert for Bovr...

Advertisement, Illustration

What is it? This is an advert for Bovril, the meat extract used to make gravy and drunk as a warming and strengthening b...

Britannia Rules The Waves

Postcard, Illustration

What is this? The start of the First World War saw the publication of large amounts of supportive, patriotic ephemera ...