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Description: | image: A pastoral scene. In the foreground of the composition and to the right an American soldier, shirtsleeves rolled to
the elbows and holding a sickle in his right hand, helps French peasants with the harvest. To his right a young French girl kneels, tying
up a bundle of wheat. She faces to her right a picnic basket set upon a tablecloth at the base of a tree at the extreme left of the
composition. In the middle distance two French peasants, one full length female, one 3/4 male wearing straw hat and holding a scythe in his
left hand, wave to passing American troops with shouldered rifles and who reciprocate their gesture. In the distance three small figures by
8 haystacks wave to a munitions and troop transport train as it puffs through the valley alongside a row of 6 telegraph
poles.
text: 'Peasants of France, salute the soldiers of free America who come in their thousands to mingle their blood with that of our own sons,
for we hold the right to farm our fields and oppose those barbarians who would deprive us of liberty.' | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | US.A 01/3(4-15) civilian personnel Transport Military Personnel Uniforms agriculture / food propaganda | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Librarie Grasset, Paris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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