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Description: | Concept: flag / banner / standard, shipping, portrait / personification, historical reference, business / trading / markets, industry, civilian morale, seascape, women / womens work Description: whole: the image occupies the upper half, with a smaller image positioned across the bottom edge. The title is integrated and positioned upper centre, in red. The text is separate and positioned in the lower half, also in red. All set against a white background. image: an American warship sails directly towards the viewer, flying a large 'Stars and Stripes' flag. Either side of the ship, a figure stands on waves: to the left, a female figure wearing a helmet and wrapped in a flag decorated with 'fleur-de-lys', with an insciption of the date 1775; to the right, a male figure holding a sword and wrapped in a flag decorated with stars, with an insciption of the date 1917. The smaller image is of a male figure holding a chain in each hand. text: L'Amérique Lutte pour L'indépendance des DEUX MONDES 1775 1917 V. Prouvé Ce que sont les Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Les Etats-Unis d'Amérique qui comptent cent millions d'habitants et sont quinze fois plus grands que la France s'étendent de l'Ocean Atlantique à l'Ocean Pacifique et occupent presque toute l'Amérique de Nord. Il n'y a pas de peuple dont la puissance Industrielle et Commerciale se soit plus vite développée. Ce pays qui, il y a cent cinquante ans, n'avait pas d'histoire joue depuis un demi-siècle un rôle des plus importants dans le Monde. Il aime passionnément la Liberté, la Justice, et veut faire régner la paix sur toute la Terre. Aussi peut-on être sûr que les Etats-Unis où tout est vaste - les fleuves, les plaines, les villes, et où tout se fait grandement, apporteront dans la conduite de la guerre, une largeur de vues et une richesse de moyens que nous ne pouvons encore entrevoir. L'Amérique s'est astreinte a la vie militaire qui lui était inconnue pour libérer le Vieux-Monde comme le Nouveau de la tyrannie Germanique. En combattant pour elle et pour nous, elle sait qu'elle lutte pour l'indépendance de la Civilisation. Imprimé par Berger-Levrault à Nancy après le 15e. bombardement de la Ville. [America is fighting for the independence of both worlds. What the United States of America is. The United States of America which has 100 million inhabitants and is fifteen times larger than France stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and occupies almost the whole of North America. There is no people whose industrial and commercial power has developed more quickly. This country which 150 years ago had no history has played one of the most important roles in the world for half a century. It has a passionate love of freedom and justice, and wants to cause peace to reign throughout the world. Therefore we can be sure that the United States, where everything is vast - the rivers, the plains, the towns - and where everything is done on a large scale, will bring to the conduct of the war a broadness of view and a wealth of resources that it is not yet possible to imagine. America has buckled down to the military life which was unknown to it in order to liberate both the Old World and the New from Germanic tyranny. In fighting for itself and for us, it knows that it is fighting for the independence of civilisation. Printed by Berger-Levrault at Nancy after the 15th bombardment of the city.] Object: flag, helmet, warship, sword, chain | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Prouvé, V Printer: Imprimerie Berger-Levrault, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=3253... | Go to resource |
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