Revolutionary poster in Russia. ? German propaganda. (The inscription on the idol is "Anglia.")
78.
GIPKENS.
"BRINGT EUREN GOLDSCHMUCK DEN GOLDANKAUFSSTELLEN!"
(Bring your gold ornaments to the gold-purchase depot!)
German poster.
79.
ALFRED OFFNER.
"ZEICHNET 7. KRIEGSANLEIHE."
(Subscribe to the seventh War Loan.)
Austrian poster, issued in Vienna.
80.
BABc.o.c.k.
"JOIN THE NAVY: THE SERVICE FOR FIGHTING MEN."
Recruiting poster for the U.S. Navy.
[Ill.u.s.tration: 77]
[Ill.u.s.tration: 78]
[Ill.u.s.tration: 79]
[Ill.u.s.tration: 80]
Footnotes:
[1] While this is being written, our authorities are again placarding our walls with indifferent posters showing the advantages of life in the Army as compared with the "disadvantages" of civil life, and embodying an undignified appeal to Britons to join the Army for the sake of playing cricket and football and seeing the world for nothing!
[2] It is worth noting that, after Germany had set a value on Raemaeker"s head, her authorities did not disdain to employ his genius, when it suited their purpose, borrowing his famous cartoon "The Dance of Death" for denunciation of Berlin"s mad craze for gaiety, with the words "Sein Tanzer ist Tod."
[3] Joseph Pennell"s "Liberty Loan Poster." A textbook for artists and amateurs, Governments and teachers and printers. 1918.
[4] The Czecho-Slovak posters are referred to in the following chapter.