A father says goodbye to his young children in this early WWI poster promoting War Savings Stamps. Its painterly qualit
a soldier dropped in chin deep or deeper water would cut himself free of his webbing, saving his life but also losing the ammunition he was carrying. Once on "dry" land, a soldier had to sprint across 200 yards of rock-and-sand beach to safety. That's a long way to run in soaking...
Tall trees made good observation posts, and leaf cover could offer protection for snipers hidden in their branches. Mike Sheil's Fields of Battle photographs, which document the battlefields of WW1 as they are today, holds this image of rungs hammered into the trunk of the tree, still living...
Purchased war saving stamps and participated in scrap metal drives What was rationing? rationing is the act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy How did rationing work? Americans were issued ration coupons to purchase coffee, sugar, meat, shoes, gasoline, tires, and ...
dark green livery and had branded tea cups and saucers bearing a lion’s head crest and the words, ‘Fortune of War’. At the Edgware Road branch, on a mirror forming the backdrop to the counter was the inscription, ‘Licensed to see Tobacco and Stamps – Founded for the Employment of...