Grande Manifestation Nationale – Historic Reproduction
(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 Grande Manifestation Nationale. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Grande Manifestation Nationale
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This color lithograph, titled *Grande Manifestation Nationale* (large national demonstration), is tied to a specific building: the cathedral of Reims, along with the fires that burned in the city during the war. German shelling and fire in 1914 severely damaged Notre-Dame de Reims, and the cathedral became one of the most widely recognized emblems of wartime destruction in France. A poster printed in 1919, as the peace settlement was being debated, would have helped rally public feeling around those losses and the reconstruction that followed.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 80 x 59 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Large national demonstration. Woodward Lothrop donor. Promotional goal: Fr. J44. 1919. Item is no. 162 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AHE · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral)--1910-1920. Fires--France--Reims--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Destruction & pillage--German--France--Reims. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,781 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 889_Grande_Manifestation_Na_1919 |
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