World War I French Propaganda Scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-20230508
Scrapbook assembled by a French army officer primarily containing World War I propaganda materials issued between 1914 and 1917. All of the contents of the scrapbook are in French.
It includes sheet music, small posters for war art exhibitions, notices for theatrical events concerning the war, advertisements, short stories and serial novelettes, cards related to bond drives, newspaper clippings and notices, patriotic lapel "pins," postcards, original drawings of a war lottery poster (R. Pichon), catalogs of war art, broadsides, military forms, correspondence from German POW camps, war bond certificates, paper money, a passport, and two photographs.
The scrapbook may have been assembled by Lieutenant Edouard Franchet, who served with the Bureau Militaire des Estrangers and is featured in two photographs found in the scrapbook.
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0.3 Cubic Feet (1 flat box)
French
The contents of the scrapbook are arranged chronologically.
Purchased from Marc Selvaggio Books and Ephemera, 2023.
The collection has been rehoused in an archival-quality box.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository