Debout! Nos morts pour la patrie . . . voici la France! – 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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Step back in time with Debout! Nos morts pour la patrie . . . voici la France!, a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Debout! Nos morts pour la patrie . . . voici la France!
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Few early war posters tie the dead so directly to a particular place as this one, whose title, *Debout! Nos morts pour la patrie... voici la France!*, translates as "Stand up! Those who died for our country... This is France!" It shows mothers and children among graves in a cemetery in Alsace, a province Germany had taken from France after 1871 and one that French propaganda repeatedly held up as a symbol of national loss. Color lithographs like this were designed to stir feeling for the fallen and for the cause, and the sheet is signed by the artist, L. Jonas. The record also lists the United States Fuel Administration as a sponsor, which suggests the design was later used in American wartime campaigns.
| Created / published | 1914 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 44 x 56 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Stand up! Those who have died for our country . . . This is France! Signed: L. Jonas. Woodward Lothrop donor. Promotional goal: Fr. J1. 1914. Item is no. 140 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AEE · United States. Fuel Administration funder/sponsor. |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--France--Alsace--1910-1920. Cemetaries--French--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Casualties--French. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,768 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 484_Debout_Nos_morts_pour_l_1914 |
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