1917

  • neuman octopus map prussia

    Striking French propaganda poster map showing Germany as a monstrous octopus threatening Europe with tentacles extending not only west to France, England, Spain and Italy, but to the Balkans and Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, Romania and Russia. Germany is shown in different shadings of red, indicating its numerous annexations of surrounding territory since 1740, the most recent being the 1871 seizure of Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian War making a comparison between the territorial conquest…

    • Author: Maurice Neumont
    • Dimension: 60 x 78 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1917
  • propaganda map europe 1917

    A rare propaganda map designed by Maurice Neumont on behalf of “La Conference au Village contre la Propagande ennemie en France” (an institution founded with the aim of advancing the patriotic cause in rural and provincial France) and published in Paris by the publisher P.J. Gallais. The work is fully in keeping with the ideological and psychological climate of the First World War and echoes a famous phrase attributed to Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de…

    • Author: Maurice Neumont
    • Dimension: 24 x 30 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1917
  • usa map president wilson 1917
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    Rare propaganda map quoting Woodrow Wilson published in France to celebrate the entrance of the United States into World War 1

    • Dimension: 65 x 100 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1917
  • La Pieuvre Germanique

     150,00

    A beautiful 1917 French propaganda postcard showing in a satirical manner the German territorial expansion in Europe in the form of an octopus.

    • Author: Varry
    • Dimension: 90 x 140 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1917