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Description: | 18515
DRAWER 117 L
NEG POS 40
design: woman, dishevelled and bloodied, hanging from a crumbling wall by her nailed hands. At her feet the dead bodies of
her husband and child. In the gaping hole of the cottage wall the silhouettes of German soldiers marching to right
text: "THEY CRUCIFY" (two lines, upper right) & "'THEY CRUCIFY' portrays an actual incident of the war, witnessed by Sergeant Albert Goad,
formerly of the Seaforth Highlanders, but since stationed with the British recruiting Mission in San Francisco. The atrocity was
perpetrated in Belgium, in a shell shattered cottage, where Sergeant Goad found a murdered husband, a mother nailed to the wall, and a babe
mutilated by a bayonet. The Sergeant told of this experience to the artist M. Hoyle, of San Francisco, who in turn painted it for the San
Francisco Army Recruiting District, adhering conscientiously to the facts" (in panel at upper left corner) & "AMERICAN MANHOOD - ENLIST" &
"US 660 MARKET ST. SAN FRANCISCO ARMY"
whole: MODEL | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | civilian suffering US.A women / womens work US Home Front & US anti-German Propaganda & (?) 1917 US Home Front & (?) 1917 Children recruiting propaganda Atrocities and War Crimes | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Louis Roesch Co Lith, San Francisco | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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