Cartoonist Clifford Berryman reminds his readers on Christmas of the vast difference between the prosperity in America and the devastation in Europe as a result of the on-going war, 1915.
From: The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
German soldiers and officers at a Christmas Mass in Laons cathedral, 1915. Illustrations by Ernst Vollbehr for the Illustrirte Zeitung. (Source.)
Illustration from the Times History and Encyclopedia of the War.
Caption: “A Christmas truce - British and Germans fraternize, December 1914. Soldiers of the rival armies exchanged sweets, cigars, and cigarettes, and sang carols and songs in unison.”
The Sphere newspaper, Christmas 1914.
British women working in arms factory during World War I ca. 1914
(via collectivehistory)
Lithograph, “Are YOU breaking the Law? Patriotic Canadians will not hoard food” 1914-1918 printed by Howell Lith in Hamilton Ontario, Canada
Schoolchildren wounded from German air raids lay in hospital. London, 1915.
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