1917
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To Freedom (Irish postcard, 1917)
Text: To freedom. Year: 1917. Publisher: Sinn Féin. Artist: NA. Additional information: Illustration shows Ireland riding past Dublin’s General Post Office carrying the tricolour. On the horse’s bridle you can see ‘Sinn Fein’ written. The postcard was published in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 when Irish Republicans rebelled against British rule
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Preparations for the 25th Battle of the Isonzo (Austrian illustration, 1917)
Text: Preparations for the 25th Battle of the Isonzo. New, tremendous guns are under construction in the Terni factory which can shoot a hundred kilometres. They were designed by Gabriele d’Annunzio Year: 11 October 1917 Publisher: Die Muskete magazine Artist: Josef V. Divéky Additional Information: Austrian illustration from the First World War mocking the Italians…
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What has he done to deserve this? (American cartoon, 1917)
Text: What has he done to deserve this? Year: 1917 Publisher: American Machinist magazine. Artist: H. P. Palmer. Additional information: Shows Uncle Sam shackled to the metric system. Published in an August 1917 article titled ‘Why Force Us To Speak a Foreign Language?’ in which the author condemns the so-called ‘metric propagandists’
