[Soldier giving direction to a family amid chaos and destruction of war] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Soldier giving direction to a family amid chaos and destruction of war], 1915 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/18/18acd807cbf6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of [Soldier giving direction to a family amid chaos and destruction of war]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Soldier giving direction to a family amid chaos and destruction of war]
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Rather than showing combat, this 1915 color lithograph presents a uniformed soldier guiding a family through a landscape of ruin and wreckage. The sheet carries no printed text, so its meaning rests entirely on the scene. Civilians caught up in the destruction of the war were a common theme in British wartime imagery, and such pictures aimed to make the human costs of the fighting visible at home and to draw out sympathy and a sense of shared sacrifice. The title was supplied later by Library staff, since the poster itself is unlabeled, a reminder that many wartime prints circulated without a clear caption.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 100 x 151 cm. |
| Notes | Poster has no text. Title devised by Library staff. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Destruction & pillage--Great Britain. War damage--Great Britain--1910-1920. Families--Great Britain--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 4,086 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 864_Soldier_giving_directio_1915 |
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