Joan of Arc Saved France

This poster by Haskell Coffin (1878-1941), was commissioned by the United States Treasury Department as part of the campaign to raise money for the First World War by having civilians buy war savings stamps.

Keep ‘em going!

American propaganda poster: German Emperor Wilhelm II being hunted by a US locomotive.

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Come on Boys!

United States National Guard recruitment poster. Marching soldiers. Some soldiers are making an inviting gesture. From our WOI Image collection.

World War One Poetry and Music, Tuesday 25 November, Peace Palace

On Tuesday 25 November 2014, 19:45 hrs, a special ‘war poetry’ evening will take place in the Peace Palace to commemorate the First World War, based on a selection by Onno Kosters. Poems of well-known poets from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy, such as Siegfried Sassoon and John McCrae, Georg Trakl, Guillaume Apollinaire will be recited. The reading of the poems will be interlarded with music compositions and performances by Rénan Zelada closely linked to the First World War. A guided tour of the exhibition ‘Peace Illusion Disturbed’ is included.

Postcard Peace Palace 1919 “Friedenspalast-Haag”

Postcard from the days of the First World War. Dated 1919. With text in German.

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Hachez, K. und O. Glaser, Kriegs ABC, Berlin, Arthur Collignon Verlag, 1915.

Description: Hachez, K. und O. Glaser, Kriegs ABC, Berlin, Arthur Collignon Verlag, 1915. 12 pages with 24 colored lithographed illustrations. Format 19,5 x 138 cm.

Deutschlands Schicksal

German propaganda poster that expresses Germany’s fear for British bombing of their industrial plants. Image: map of Germany’s main industrial area. Around the map bombers and destroyed industrial plants are depicted.

If ye break faith – we shall not sleep

Commemorative poster for World War I. A lone soldier stands in a field of poppies, his head bowed as he looks down at a simple wooden grave cross. The title of this poster is taken from the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ written by Dr. John McRae (1872-1918), a doctor serving in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.

“I summon you to Comradeship in the Red Cross”

Recruitment poster for the American Red Cross. Red Cross nurse holding an American flag. On the background the Congress building is depicted. With a quote of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States: “I summon you to Comradeship in the Red Cross.”

Striner, R., Woodrow Wilson and World War I: A Burden too Great to Bear, Lanham, Rowman Littlefield, 2014.

This book is a story of presidential failure, a chronicle of Woodrow Wilson’s miscalculations in war, and a harrowing account of the process through which an intelligent American leader fell to pieces under a burden he could not bear.