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Debout, les morts! (Wake the dead)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A German soldier dances through a cemetery with hats on top of wooden crosses. The man is trying to arouse the dead buried in the graveyard. He is possibly holding a tambourine above his head. This wo...ART50129
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Devant Verdun: leur consolation (In front of Verdun: their consolation)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Innumerable graves mark those of German soldiers killed at Verdun. The Crown Prince stands and places his hand on the shoulder of Bethmann-Hollweg who kneels in prayer, and consoles him with the remar...ART50141
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Graves in a battlefield
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Makeshift war graves in a battlefield in France. The bright red flowers suggest vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefie...ART19587
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Journee des regions liberees: que votre aide a vos freres malheureux soit genereuse (Liberated Regions Day: May your help to our unfortunate brothers be generous!)
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Maker: Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre Lapina Printers, Paris
In 1919 two thirds of the French population was affected by a loss or several losses of close family members. This powerful postwar image shows a single wooden cross - a battlefield grave with a disin...ARTV07345
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La philosophie du front (The philosophy of the front)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
One soldier, in front of a comrade's simple wooden cross, asks another soldier: 'What do you want?...That's life...'. Coutin 1987 (19D).This work was published in 'L'Opinion, 3rd April 1915, p. 216-21...ART50148
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Stained glass window design (for 'War Memorial')
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Maker: Woollcott, Henry
A rough sketch of a stained glass window design for a War Memorial. Henry Woollcott served with the First A.I.F. , at the 3rd Australian Hospital in Abbeville, France. After the end of the of the Fir...ART93191