Occupation Gallery

Library of Congress Mural - The Occupation of the Day

Washington DC, USA - Mural - The Occupation of the Day by Charles Sprague Pearce (1851-1914). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Religion'. Worship before an altar of Fire. Charles Sprague Pearce (1851-1914) Date: 1920

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Boadicea leading Iceni revolt by Fortunino Matania

Boadicea (variously spelt, eg Boudicca), Queen of the Iceni, wife of Prasutagus. Leader of a vigorous but doomed revolt against the Roman occupation of Britain pictured with her daughters in full revolutionary flow. Picture illustrating the second in a series of Famous Women from History written by Kenneth Bell and illustrated by Fortunino Matania in Britannia and Eve magazine. Date: 62 AD

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A Murmansk Murmur by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon

"Don't that make ye blinkin well wild, Bert?" Old Bill, the soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, together with his old pal Bert, are stationed in Murmansk, in the far North West of Russia, occupied by the Allies between 1918 and 1920. Old Bill regards a dove of peace, heading for Europe with a certain element of cynicism since Russia at this time was still in the middle of civil war. Date: 1919

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