Why bother about the Germans invading the country? Invade it yourself by Underground and motor-bus. Easter - 1915 / The Brothers Warbis designed printed by Spottiswoode Co. Ltd. London E.C. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Why bother about the Germans invading the country? Invade it yourself by Underground and motor-bus. Easter - 1915 / The Brothers Warbis designed printed by Spottiswoode Co. Ltd. London E.C., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Why bother about the Germans invading the country? Invade it yourself by Underground and motor-bus. Easter - 1915 / The Brothers Warbis designed printed by Spottiswoode Co. Ltd. London E.C.
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Instead of the German invasion that the title worries about, this 1915 poster proposes a gentler kind of invasion: Londoners heading out of the city by Underground and motor-bus for the Easter holiday. The Brothers Warbis designed it, and its subjects include children at play, which suggests the outing was meant for families as well as adults. Its wording turns wartime anxiety about invasion into a joke about travel, and it shows how London's transit network was promoted as a way to get people out of the city during the war.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 101 x 63 cm. |
| Notes | 70-1500-19-2-15. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Social aspects--Great Britain. Children playing--England--1910-1920. Mass transit--England--London--1910-1920. Subways--England--London--1910-1920. Buses--England--London--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 716 × 892 px |
| Reference | 295_Why_bother_about_the_Ge_1915.tif-S |
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