The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This poster depicts four vignettes in this appeal to subscribe to the 1920 national war loan in order to present a diverse audience; A farmer looks up from toiling in the field, a working class family views a poster, a fashionably dressed family with two children and a shopkeeper claiming that it is their duty to subscribe to the national war loan of 1920.
This post-war reconstruction poster depicts Marianne, a personification of the French republic, with sheaves of wheat. On one level, the wheat represents the rewards of victory which France has begun
Depicts a dark haired woman cradling her little girl in her arms as she puts her to bed. A portrait of a decorated French 'poilu' (which means 'hairy one', and was the slang for WWI French infantryme
In 1920 the French Government issued loans to finance reconstruction following the First World War. Designed by the artist Paul David, a well known painter of interiors, this sumptuous poster is one o
French poster featuring the return of Strasbourg to France, with a band leading a march past old houses and church decorated with French flags, seeking subscribers to the third national defence loan '
French poster featuring the return of Strasbourg to France, with a band leading a march past old houses and church decorated with French flags, seeking subscribers to the third national defence loan '
Poster depicts a wreath made of fruit, vegetable and wheat, subsistance foods which were in short supply during the latter part of the First World War, with information on the national loan. The poste