The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
battlefield, tree planting ceremony; poster depicting a young woman with a rosette in her hair, most probably intended to be Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic, planting a tree over a grave on a battlefield and using a discarded sword as a stake, other war graves in the background, poster seeks subscribers to the national loan
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
civilian, foodstuffs; poster depicting a fisherman with basket of fish on a wharf, with fishing boats and buildings of town ( sur Mer) in background, poster seeks subscribers to the national 6% loan
Depicts a French soldier planting a tattered flag with the word 'Liberte' in a globe. The poster was fund raising for the 3rd 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 '
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 '
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