Was England will! / Egon Tschirch 1918. – Antique 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: Was England will! / Egon Tschirch 1918., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Was England will! / Egon Tschirch 1918.
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Its German title, *Was England will!*, translates as "What England wants!", and the subjects listed for the poster point to its argument: British airplanes over German factories and the damage they left behind. Issued in 1918, the last year of the war, it belongs to a body of German propaganda that presented British air raids on industrial towns as attacks on ordinary life rather than on the war economy. Tschirch's color lithograph was aimed at a home front short of the materials and labor the war demanded, which gave the factory a symbolic role as a sign of national endurance. Its origin in the Rehse collection of war-era publicity makes it a useful record of how the conflict was argued at home.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 98 x 67 cm. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Campaigns & battles--Germany. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Germany. Aerial bombings--Germany--1910-1920. Airplanes--British--Germany--1910-1920. War damage--German--1910-1920. Factories--Germany--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,908 × 6,162 px · prints to 16 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 11_Was_England_will_Egon_1918 |
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