World War I Posters (SC23360) - Other Countries

Image of two Red Cross nurses carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher in the foreground; other soldiers are in the background with one soldier being loaded into an ambulance; further back are soldiers sitting on the ground with nurses taking care of them.

W.B. King

Sackett & Wilhelms Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y.

(poster mounted on cloth; slightly torn)

Image of the Union Jack dominates the poster; NYSL copy has blank space at bottom for insertion of address.

(several really bad tears)

Image of King Albert in foreground; soldiers marching and on horseback in background.

La Compagnie d'Imprimerie Moderne, Montreal, [Quebec, Canada]

(mounted on cloth)

Image of man, woman and child in foreground; man and woman are pointing to the distance; bombed-out buildings in background.

La Masui-Castricque

Imp. Lith. Ed. Van Looy

(same image as BELG 01; text in Flemish [?]).

La Compagnie d'Imprimerie Moderne, Montreal, [Quebec, Canada]

Melantrich, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Živnostenská Banka

[Photographic facsimile of a document (in German), dated Oct. 13, 1913, found in German East Africa showing German anti-Mohammedan attitude, with translation in Chinese; photographic facsimiles of the German governor, the government house and the mosque]

(on rice paper?)

(several really bad tears)

[Duplicate of CHI 01]

(several really bad tears)

[Photographic facsimile of a letter (in Arabic); text in Chinese; photographic facsimile of Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of the Hejaz]

(See CH 05)

(several bad tears)

[Duplicate of CHI 01]

(several bad tears)

[Duplicate of CH 03]

(Pencilled on back: Proclamation on the capture of Jerusalem by the British Hejaz)

(several bad tears)

[Tissue sheet with printed Chinese characters]

(English translation hand-lettered on a separate sheet of tissue paper: The great powers joined all over the world. The German emperor went away to Holland. The German enemy was totally defeated. The armistice was signed. They hope the peace conference will succeed.)

(black and white)

Box 8

[Chinese characters printed on tissue paper]

(black and white)

[Photograph of a tank; text in Chinese]

(black and white)

(3 copies)

Image of Uncle Sam handing money to a young man who holds a paper labeled "Bono de la libertad" in his hand; Uncle Sam's other hand is on the young man's shoulder.

Massaguer

Compañía Litográfica de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

Editado por el Comité del Empresitito para Cuba

(advertisement for a field day)

Image of three soldiers on horseback jumping a hurdle in the foreground; overhead are two biplanes.

Compañía Litográfica de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

(a couple of tears)

Soldier shouldering a rifle with one hand and holding a second rifle, in an offering position in the other; crossed Cuban flags in background mostly obscured.

R. Lillo

Compañía Litográfica de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

(several tears)

Image of a soldier on horseback in foreground; soldiers on horseback in background; the Shield of Cuba below image of soldier.

R. Lillo

Compañía Litográfica de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

(several tears)

Image of the Statue of Liberty

Compañía Litográfica de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

"Wentworth Poster No. 11"

Image of a Czech patriot, in peasant dress, wielding a long-handled axe in his left hand and carrying a blunderbuss in his right, pursuing, to the left, three Austro-Hungarian infantrymen, depicted in silhouette; behind them are black clouds from which are coming red lightning bolts.

[F.T. Chapman?] [Vojtěch Preissig?]

Wentworth Institute School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Boston, Mass.

Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, New York

Image of soldiers, in silhouette, carrying bayonetted rifles and flags, in color, of Czechoslovakia.

Wentworth Institute School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Boston, Mass.

Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, New York

Wentworth Poster, No. 6

Image of a soldier on horseback carrying a rifle and a version of the Hussite war flag.

[Vojtěch Preissig?]

School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute, Boston, Mass.

Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York

Wentworth Poster, No. 7

Images of a Czech soldier in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier.

[Vojtěch Preissig?]

School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute, Boston, Mass.

Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York

Wentworth Poster, No. 8

Image of soldiers charging over a hill with fixed bayonets; three flags: United States flag; the four-star Czechoslovakian flag; and the Slovakian banner-of-arms cross and the Hussite war cross on the same flag.

School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute, Boston, Mass.

Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York

Image of soldiers storming over hills. Shown behind and beneath the central image of the poster is a variant of a flag that Vojtech Preissig created as a possible new national flag for Czechoslovakia.

Wentworth Poster, No. 10

[Vojtěch Preissig?]

School of Printing and Graphic Arts of Wentworth Institute, Boston, Mass.

Czechoslovak Recruiting Office, Tribune Building, New York

(dated: March 6, 1920)

Image of two women standing on a wooden bridge consoling each other; in the background is a house, a windmill and two Danish flags; the black-and-white image is framed on three sides by a border of green leaves.

[Joakim Skovgaard?]

Jens M. Ferdinand, Flensborg, Denmark

Der Zensurausschus bei der Internationalen Kommission

Image of a large, black bird trampling the Ottoman flag

ΛΙΘ, ΓΡΟΥΝΔΜΑΝ & ΣΚΟΥΝΤΗ/[Groundman and Skounti]

Coq Rouge

Greek soldier blowing a bugle; other hand is holding a large Greek flag

ΛΙΘ. ΛΟΥΡΟ ΠΟΥΛΟΥ &[?] ΛΟΥΜΑΚΗ-ΑΘΗΝΑΙ

ΠΑΤΡΙΩΤΙΚΗ ΕΝΩΣΙΣ/ΒΟΥΚΟΥΡΕΣΤΙΟΥ 9

Man wearing no shirt with a fierce look on his face holding a rifle with a fixed bayonet and stepping forcefully forward.

Dankó [Ödön]

A Grafikai Intézet Nyomása

On wooden box: Golyótüzön, sturmon, ha végre túlestünk,/ Brázay sósborszesz üdíti fel testünk./Egy ü Brázay 1000 pengöt ér itt,/ A fiúk hazulról mindig csak ezt kérik.

Image of soldiers in a trench rubbing themselves with witch hazel; a box of bottles of witch hazel is in the forefront of the image; in the background are rifles and men in the trench holding rifles.

Nyomt Kellner és Mohrlüder, Budapest, [Hungary]

(some tears)

(Cenzupat: Gavrilsecu)

Image of 2 Két Korona with propaganda message.

Kultura Nyomda R.T., Budapest, [Hungary]

Bokros Fejes

Kultura, Budapest, Hungary

Biró

Seidner, Budapest, Hungary

Biró

Seidner, Budapest, Hungary

Socialdemokratára

Vèrtes

Kultura, Budapest, Hungary

(dated: 1917)

(black and white)

Athenaeum R.T., Budapest, Hungary

(dated: 1919)

Gusztav Folders Vegh

Kunossy

(dated: 1919)

[Bertalan?] Pór

Seidner, Budapest, Hungary

Biró

Kultura R.T., Budapest, Hungary

(dated: 1917)

(black and white)

Image of a woman with her arms reaching toward the sky as if ready to embrace someone; she wears a kerchief and the decoration on her skirt is hearts.

[György?] Kürthy

Athenaeum R.T., Budapest, Hungary

Image of a map of a country [Austria-Hungary?] that has been separated into five pieces.

[Ernö Jeges?]

Kultura, R.T., Budapest, Hungary

Országos Propaganda Bizottság

Image, in foreground, of a man in medieval-style clothes leaning against a pole from which wires are connected to an alarm/light and gazing into distance; he holds a pen/pencil in his hand and is preparing to write on a piece of paper. In background is the skyline of a city with several buildings with spires and one very large building with a dome and spires; above the cityscape and a cross [of Hungary?]

Husz (?)

Kellner és Mohrlüder, Budapest, [Hungary]

(black and white)

Image of a map of Austria-Hungary mimicking a hole in which a large number of skulls and bones have been tossed.

Federation of the Friends of Hungary

(dated: May 1915)

Image showing the Lusitania in flames and sinking, with people in the water and lifeboats in the foreground.

W.E.T.

John Shuley & Co., Dublin, [Ireland]

Central Council for the Organisation [sic] of Recruiting in Ireland

(dated: Jan. 31, 1919)

(black and white)

The poster consists of the text of the declaration plus a table comparing Ireland to countries in Europe in size, population, and "annual bills" quotations of principal figures related to the fight for independence.

Dail Eireann

(At head of title: Spirit of 19-17-76/"Mr. President We Are Ready")

Image of three colonial soldiers marching and playing drums and a fife with the American eagle over them carrying two U.S. flags. A modern soldier and sailor face each other in the foreground.

69th Regiment, U.S. Army

British Army Irish recruitment poster showing the highest bravery award in the British Army (the Victoria Cross) with a portrait of VC winner Sgt. Michael O'Leary at the center.

James Walker (Dublin) Ltd., Printers, Dublin, Ireland

Irish Guards

Image of a wounded soldier, attended by a friend who is appealing to the Statue of Liberty for aid. In the background is the New York City skyline with the statue in the harbor.

From Internet, Jan. 7, 1915: A World War I poster in support of Irish servicemen in America described as "extremely rare" was sold at auction by vintage poster specialist Swann Auction Galleries in Manhattan this week [Aug. 14, 2011] for $1,400 (€989) exceeding its estimate of $800-$1,200 (€565-€848).

Jagger

Shamrock Fund

Poster includes a small portrait of England's King George V above the text.

Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica

(text only; no images)

Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica

Photographic images of President [Raymond] Poincare of France, President Woodrow Wilson, King George V of England, King Albert of Belgium, and Sir Douglas Haig are dwarfed by the text.

Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica

Recruiting poster for the British West Indies Regiment, showing a small portrait of King George V.

Gleaner Co., Ltd., Printers, Kingston, Jamaica

Image of the national flag of The Netherlands flying from a fasces; beneath the flag is a roaring lion; in silhouette behind the lion are men with rifles marching, with one man on horseback.

Lith. J.H. de Bussy, Amsterdam, [The Netherlands]

Secretariat Rotterdam

Pencilled on poster: Newfoundland 1918

Little girl dressed in white with a red ribbon in her hair with her hands grasping the front of her dress, standing behind a set of alphabet blocks spelling out "Buy Me a Victory Bond."

Sampson

(several bad tears)

Pencilled in: Newfoundland 1918

Image of a soldier sitting on a dock holding his rifle between his legs; he is flanked by a gas mask and knapsack. In the background are the silhouettes of two ships.

(several bad tears)

(dated: 3/1916)

Basically text with crossed flags of New Zealand and Great Britain at the top of the poster.

John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington, [New Zealand]

National Recruiting Board

(dated: 8/16)

(black-and-white copy of NZ 03)

(text only; no images)

Box 8

[Artwork and text on the NYSL poster is somewhat similar to the poster below]:

Ramon Montes, Manila, Philippine Islands

Image of a soldier holding, in his right hand, the American flag above his head; his left hand rests on the head of a woman holding a baby.

Reynolds

U.S. Army Recruiting

Red Cross nurse dressed like a Madonna cradling a soldier on a stretcher as a mother would cradle a baby; behind the drawing is the Red Cross.

Bureau of Printing, Manila, [Philippine Islands]

Red Cross

Pencilled in: "Issued in the Philippine Islands"

Image of the Red Cross

Red Cross

In the foreground is an image of a woman and her son who is dressed in a military uniform and holding a rifle with a bayonet. With her left hand, the woman is pointing to a German soldier slaughtering a woman and three babies; with her right hand she is encouraging the soldier toward that slaughter. In the background is the Statue of Liberty.

F. Amorsolo

J. Fajardo, Manila, [Philippine Islands]

National Guard

(same image as PHIL 05)

Mainly text consisting of several paragraphs explaining the War Insurance Law and the rates of monthly pay of enlisted men.

F. Amorsolo

(dated: 1917)

(Government Food Poster No. 1 (not subject to tax))

Image of harvesting scene with a woman holding a scythe in one hand and a sheaf of wheat in the other as she looks out at men harvesting wheat in the background; six labeled images surround this image: Select Your Seed; Plant a Garden; Raise Hogs; Raise Chickens; Do Your Part (man hoeing garden); Do It Now (woman carrying coconuts [?]; coconut and banana trees [?] in background)

J.M. Zamora

Philippine Food Commission

(same image and textual messages as PHIL 08)

Bureau of Printing, Manila, [Philippine Islands]

Image of a German soldier using a sledgehammer to stake a soldier to a tree; in the background, a group of soldiers under an American flag are coming to the rescue.

F. Amorsolo

Bureau of Printing, Manila, [Philippine Islands]

Image of Santa Claus with a sack full of money and a large Red Cross emblem

Bureau of Printing, Manila, [Philippine Islands]

Red Cross/Insular Government Campaign

(text only; no images)

Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Image of the Statue of Liberty; backdrop is a part of the U.S. flag

Eugenie LeLand

Sackett & Wilhelms, New York City, N.Y.

Image of a flag of four vertical blue stripes on a white ground with a wide red border

Edwards & Deutsch Litho Co., Chicago, Ill.

Image of the Statue of Liberty in ruins and the New York skyline in flames

Joseph Pennell, Del.

Heywood, Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co., New York, N.Y.

Image of wounded Allied soldier with bayonet ready

Walter Whitehead

Strobridge Litho Co., Cincinnati, Ohio

Image of a German soldier leading a girl by the hand; burning city in background

Ellsworth Young

United States Printing & Lithograph Co., New York, N.Y.

Image of a woman clutching an infant as a German soldier approaches

Raleigh

Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., Chicago, Ill.

Image of blood-stained boots each of which has the German imperial eagle insignia

John Norton

Strobridge Litho Co., Cincinnati, Ohio

Image of a bloody hand print

J. Allen St.John

Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., Chicago, Ill.

Image of woman (symbolizing America) with sword, shield, and U.S. flag

J. Scott Williams

Morgan Litho Co., Cleveland, Ohio

Poster is dominated by the image of a woman dressed in festival dress holding sheaves of wheat; factories and city in silhouette in lower background; Polish eagle in each of upper corners.

Witold Gordon

Image of Kosciuszko and Pulaski in foreground; U.S. and Polish flags in background.

W.T. Benda

Stacja Rekrutacyjna No. 27, 1003 Arcade, St. Paul, Minn.

(dated: 1920)

Image of three Polish soldiers, one holding a pike, one holding a rifle and one preparing to throw a hand grenade.

Kamil Mackiewicz

(text only; no images)

Drukiem Wydawnictwa Białego Orła, New York, N.Y.

Nakładem Komisyi Wojskowej, New York, N.Y.

Translation of Polish text: "Diaspora to Fatherland. On the day of 3rd of May 1918. On the golden lists there mustn't be missing one Polish name. Funds needed for: 1. To help out soldiers. 2. Field hospitals and help for the wounded on battlefields. 3. National objectives."

Image of Polish white eagle

Two-sided document printed in Polish with a map showing the areas of Europe and Guatemala receiving aid from the American Red Cross.

American Red Cross

Image of a soldier, without a helmet, moving forward holding a rifle in his left hand and the Polish flag in his right hand; U.S., French and British flags in background.

Witold Gordon

Image of Polish soldier charging into battle with his rifle prepared to shoot; in background are an image of the Polish flag and images of other soldiers moving forward with fixed bayonets.

W.T. Benda

(black and white)

Image of a winged knight on a horse, heading into battle.

W.T. Benda

(dated: 1917)

Image of a knight with a sword and shield, a man holding a torch astride a rearing horse, and a man in Russian peasant garb steadying a wheel with one hand and holding a mallet in his other hand.

(dated: 1917)

Pencilled in: Russian war loan

Image of a man holding a large red flag on which is written: Война до победы

Д. Бучкин

[Printed in Petrograd]

(small tears)

Image of a soldier on horseback carrying a Russian flag.

Pencilled in: Russian war loan

The NYSL copy does not have the English text.

А.О. Максимов

(dated: 1917)

Pencilled in: War loan

Image of a man in a Russian army officer's uniform standing on a wooden box holding a rifle parallel to the ground; behind him are men marching, carrying rifles and red flags on which are slogans.

Б. Кустодиев

[Printed in Petrograd]

Battle scene: Russian soldier in foreground; men manning a cannon in the background

Pencilled in: Russian war loan

Е. ЧЕПЦОВ/[E.M. Cheptsov]

(dated: 1919)

Image of a boy with his father (?) and grandfather (?) in the foreground; all three have rifles with bayonets. In the background is a burning building (village?)

Pencilled in: "Published in Arcangel [sic] shows boy + father + grandfather defending home burning at left"

Also pencilled in: "Erastus Corning"

B.H.D.

(dated: 1915)

Pencilled in: Battle near Serpetch

Image of a battle: men on the ground, men on horseback, men walking away from the battle in the background

Image of a man, on a white horse, slaying a dragon.

Янковскіи [Jankovski]

Image of a man in tattered clothes with no shoes standing in the cold looking in a window where three army officers are drinking a toast

Pencilled in: "It gives light but no warmth it refers to the feeling of Russian people to the Brest Litovsk [treaty] circulated in central Russia"

Pencilled in: Erastus Corning

Image of soldiers advancing with bayonets extended

The NYSL copy does not have the English caption at the top.

(advertisement)

Image of a soldier with one arm in a sling supporting himself standing with a crutch; in the background are a paddle steamboat and the sun rising/setting over mountains.

Autographie Ed. Zeder, Luzern, [Switzerland]