Civilians Collection (page 3)

WW1 Poster, Feed the Guns with War Bonds
Poster, Feed the Guns with War Bonds and Help to End the War. circa 1918

Cartoon, The Little War, WW1
Cartoon, The Little War. Children playing a war game. One of them tells his friend: Don t yell like that, you re supposed to be dead! Date: 1917

Cartoon, The Road Menders, WW1
Cartoon, The Road Menders. They stop work to watch the arrival of some VIPs. Date: 1917

Greek Art. Munich Lekythos. Grave monument in the form of an oil flask (lekythos). About 370 BC. As a sing of their attachment the couple reach out their hands to each other. Gyptothek. Munich

Monument to the Siege of Zaragoza, 1908 by Agustin Querol. S
Napoleonic Wars. Peninsular War (1807-1814). Monument to the Siege of Zaragoza. Built in1908 by the Spanish sculptor Agustin Querol (1860-1909)

Cartoon, The course of the Deutschmark, WW1
Cartoon, The course of the Deutschmark. The nymphs of the goldmine have deserted the waters (a parody of Ovid). Two classical female figures walk away as a group of German civilians look despondently

Cartoon, Grandpas advice, WW1
Cartoon, Grandpas advice. An old soldier thinks there should be a tax on umbrellas. Date: 1917

Cartoon, New taxes on dogs, WW1
Cartoon, New taxes on dogs (to help pay for the ongoing war). Women discuss a man who has replaced his dog with a goldfish in order to avoid paying the tax, and is taking it for a walk. Date: 1917

Furs Vaterland - German WW1 knitting postcard
German postcard featuring a row of little girls knitting For the Fatherland during the First World War. Civilians of all the warring nations knitted comforts for men serving at the front during this

Women police officers and others, Isle of Man, WW2
Four women police officers and others in a group photo at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War, where they were responsible for security, including luggage checks

Stretcher bearers waiting for ambulance train arrival
A group of civilians are standing by parked ambulance vehicles inside a station building at Ramsgate Town Station. On the ground nearby are several stretchers

Fort Dearborn Massacre
Chicago-area Indians, on the side of the British, formed a war party led by Chief Blackbird, and ambushed 96 soldiers and civilians being exacuated from Fort Dearborn Date: 15 August 1812

Wwi / Air Raid on Paris
L HEURE DU TAUBE French civilians in the Jardins du Luxembourg watch the skies for German air raiders in the dreaded Taube monoplane Date: 1916

Having Photo Taken
A soldier & his girl have their photo taken at the army camp before he goes abroad to fight. Date: 1939 - 1945

Camp in St James Park
Encampment, St Jamess Park, of troops brought in to quell the disturbances caused by the Gordon Riots. Soldiers relax with civilians amidst rows of tents, flags & stacks of drums Date: August 1780

Italy / 452 / Refugees Venic
Italian civilians seek refuge in what today is Venice Date: 452

German Music Hall Advert
This advertisement for the Wintergarten music hall at the Central Hotel, Berlin, shows that Berliners were able to enjoy the pleasures of night life, despite the enemy Date: September 1941

Hospital Sports, Quex House garden
Patients in shirtsleeves are playing the game of trying to eating an apple hanging from a string tied to a horizontal line

Cartoon, A nouveau riche man, WW1
Cartoon, a nouveau riche man, who has made his money from the war, tells a showgirl that he arrived in Paris in clogs, and he won t blush to admit it

Cartoon, No need to worry, WW1
Cartoon, No need to worry, showing various complacent people, soldiers and civilians, thinking that war isn t such a bad thing, as they themselves are doing all right. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Concerning sugar, WW1
Cartoon, Concerning sugar. Two French women discuss how little sugar they are using during the sugar crisis, but it still sounds like quite a lot! Date: 1916

Cartoon, The paper crisis, WW1
Cartoon, The paper crisis. A French officer on horseback asks a civilian why he has no papers (identity documents). The civilian replies that the newspapers are short of paper too! Date: 1916

Cartoon, Round figures, WW1
Cartoon, Round figures. A French gendarme officiously challenges a civilian man about his age. The document says 47, but he is sure the man looks nearer 50. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Let them pass, WW1
Cartoon, Let them pass. Two French gendarmes in army uniform decide that these two ladies can be allowed through -- they can t possibly be German, as they are pretty and have delicate little feet

Cartoon, Its all about understanding each other, WW1
Cartoon, Its all about understanding each other. A haughty young German soldier and a meek old Frenchman stand together in a room, giving little sense of equality or negotiation. Date: 1916

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The tall story, WW1
Cartoon, The tall story. Showing a rumour circulating, from two men at the top of the Eiffel Tower down to two women at the foot of a staircase

Cartoon, Neglected sailor, WW1
Cartoon, A neglected sailor asks a group of civilians in a restaurant what is the point of being masters of the sea, if people only give you one sardine to eat? Date: 1916

Cartoon, War stories, WW1
Cartoon, War stories. A French sailor tells a group of civilians of his exploits. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Two fashionable French women, WW1
Cartoon, two fashionable French women with their purchases, one of them reading a newspaper (Le Journal). One of them says that its easy to say Howitzers, Grenades, etc

Cartoon, News from Montauban, WW1
Cartoon, News from Montauban. Three young French women read an English communique about heavy firing in the Montauban region

Cartoon, Regrets, WW1
Cartoon, Regrets. An elderly man is sorry to see that he has a rival for a ladys affections -- he can t win against a young soldier in uniform with a wounded hand. Date: 1916

Cartoon, To the bitter end, WW1
Cartoon, To the bitter end. A father tells his soldier son that we will stay in the trenches for twenty years if thats what it takes, and keep going to the bitter end. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Soldier returning from leave, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier returning from leave tells his colleague what it was like. At every point someone pointed to the Keep Quiet notice, although what he had said was entirely innocent

Sphere cover - East Coast bombardments, Hartlepool chapel
The bombardment of the East Coast - the scene outside a Hartlepool Baptist Chapel. Scene painted by Fortunino Matania based on a sketch by fellow Sphere artist, G. H

Cartoon, French wartime scenes, WW1
Cartoon, French wartime scenes, showing French people more or less going about their normal business, satirically contradicting an exaggerated German communique about the effect of the German

The Flight from Tirlemont, Belgians fleeing, Aug 1914
Belgian civilians fleeing from Tirlemont away from the invading Germans in August 1914. Date: 1914

Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, WW1
Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, during the early stages of the First World War. One of the men (centre) is an Algerian Spahi. Date: 1914

Return of hostages at end of first Afghan War
The return of military and civilian British hostages towards the end of the first Afghan War. They had been held by Akbar Khan. Date: 1842

Why aren t they in the Honours List? H. M Bateman WW1 cartoon
" Civilian Heroes of the Great War" Batemans WWI illustrations often mock the upper classes for their oblivion to the true extent to which ordinary people were suffering during the war

Germans demand surrender of Reims, 1914
How the surrender of Reims was demanded. Immediately before the bombardment of Reims, German parlementaires came into the town under a flag of truce to demand its immediate surrender

Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks out
Cartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918

Intolerable! by Norman Morrow
First Slacker (to second ditto): " These lighting restrictions - darn d nuisance. Hailed a " taxi" the other night

March past of soldiers on the Western Front, WW1
Officers standing on a platform, watching a march past of soldiers on the Western Front, WW1. Date: 1914-1918

Parisians celebrate peace treatry, France, 1919
A series of photographs recording of French citizens celebrating the peace treaty in the streets of Paris. From jubilation in the city, German guns being dragged through the streets

WW1 - Conscription in Britain
WW1 - Britannia holding her trident and the National Register, in front of civilians and industrial factory. The patriotic scenario

Sphere cover - Air Raid over London
Front cover of The Sphere showing civilians in London during the air raid of 7 July 1917, taking shelter in what looks like a church doorway as a police officer looks skyward to check on whether

The Way of War with Civilians, WW1
The Way of War with Civilians -- a cross-section of an English home, showing how it could be adapted for military purposes during the First World War. Date: 1914

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