JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This is an unusual image, a behind-the-scenes, behind-the-lines, everyday domestic front scene, something showing the war going on in the trenches (so to speak) at home. It shows two civilians working on popular posters for movies (“Die Silbernen Kugeln…”) and fund raising (“Die Deutsche Kriegs Anlehe”) for the German army. The image was found in the May 1917 issue of the (Leipzig) Illustrirte Zeitung:
No doubt there was a lot of this sort of activity going on, in wartime and not, but in my 30 years of travels through the history of illustration I don’t often see these images.