Verdun, Road to Y.M.C.A. Canteen: A 1917 Poster Sketched on the Spot
A YMCA secretary sketched this ruined Verdun street on the spot in 1917. Here is what the poster shows and what the YMCA canteens meant to soldiers.
American Military Posters
That Liberty Shall Not Perish: Joseph Pennell’s 1918 Liberty Loan Poster
Joseph Pennell imagined New York in flames and the Statue of Liberty shattered to sell the Fourth Liberty Loan. Here is the story behind the poster.
Setting the Course to Victory
L. W. Bentley’s recruitment image places two Coast Guardsmen at the centre of America’s wartime maritime effort.
Keep ’Em Going!: The WWI Railroad Poster and the Locomotive War
A U.S. locomotive charges a fleeing Prussian soldier in this First World War railroad poster. Here is what it meant, and why engines mattered to the war.