Snapshots of Canada’s Past: History is more than just words on a screen or from a textbook; this series is a thematic look back at Canadian history through visual imagery. There are a number of types of propaganda, but for this post I will be only looking at examples from Canada during World War I. The…
This is a reproduction of one of the U.S. WWI experimental helmets. Only a hand full of these are known to exist in private collections and museums. To make this one happen a reproduction face
The spectacular posters that tsarist Russia used to drum up support for its war effort.
WWI Blouse in Cotton The Great War brought austerity, simplicity, and practicality to fashion. A simple blouse like this could be worn tucked in or out and had a waist stay for keeping it in place and blousing. Historical Sew Monthly The Challenge: Monochrome July 2016 Fabric: 100% cotton batiste dobby weave stripe Pattern: "Elsie"…
WWI postcards
Pillar/column
The Penguin Book of Fisrt Wolrd War Poetry (1996). Oorspronkelijk uitgave: 1979.
A British Mark IV Heavy Tank. This is the only surviving one still in its original colors. Seeing service from 1917 until the end of the war a year later, the Mark IV was designed to end the stalemate of trench warfare. The Belgian National Military Museum had loads of cool stuff in it, although with most of the captions in French and Dutch I didn't spend a lot of time reading the displays.
Mountain top accommodation after the attack on September 1, 1916 https://t.co/1pxNO2RXLI https://t.co/igb2D2Jh2i https://t.co/DKXCYj27Lt http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/771320508109365251
I looked up in 1940 Souvenir views of San Francisco and can identify this place as the Famous Cliff House hotel BEFORE it burned down (and was rebuilt)
WWI: 1464 photographs available for sale.
When the United States entered the First World War on the side of the Allies in 1917, the major powers of Europe had been fighting for nearly three years. In that time, the front lines on the Western Front had become nearly static, with trenches that stretched from Switzerland in the south to the English Channel in the north. This environment had caused the combatant armies to adapt their weapons and equipment. One such piece, the steel helmet, was born out of this necessity.
To balance out our anti-German fear-mongering , not to mention our favorite maps showing the Ottoman Empire as a German colony , it se...
The American Committee for Relief in the Near East, which put these posters in circulation in the last years of World War I, began in 1915 as the...
Arthur Maxted, 72, has had the collection of posters in his attic for the last 30 years - and it is only recently that he realised they were of wider interest.
