Ten Interesting WWI Images I Found in the New York Public Library Digital Archives

The New York Public Library, 1919

As you may guess, since the New York Public Library has vast collections of stuff on just about every topic under the sun, it has a great collection of First World War material. I've drawn on NYPL regularly for material for Roads to the Great War. So recently, I decided to go poking around in their archives for some fresh images that I'd never seen before. Hope you enjoy what I've found. They can all be substantially enlarged by clicking on them.  MH

 

1. A Burberry Advertisement, Apparently Pre-Trench Coat

2. Christ with Cross vs. Trotsky

3. The King of Saxony, Hindenburg, and Ludendorff with the Army

4. Russian Poster - Harvesting German & Austrian Heads

5.  Western Front Battle Map—Dated 25 September 1918

6. Range Finder Cigarette Card (Front and Back)

7. "The path of the Cossack through war-smitten Galicia"

8. Rake for tearing down barbed wire entanglements. Cigarette Card

9. American Donkey Train in Meuse-Argonne Battle

10.  A road song: Return from Carcassonne to Toulouse