10/08/2026
FROM THE LINEN BACKING KITCHEN - THE WAR YEARS
As we seem to be exiting the longest period of global peace and stability ( meaning a time when global war involving many if not most developed countries last occurred ….WWII ) and moving toward global instability in multiple regions, we look at some original war posters.
Charles Rich Wilcox’s 1944-45 Canadian poster, Buy More Victory Bonds. 36” x 48”
Jules-Abel Faivre’s 1917 WWI French poster for the 3rd National Defence Fund 32” x 48”
WHY DON’T THEY COME? WWI 1915-16 Canadian poster featuring our national sport in the design. 27.5” x 42” . This poster is in the collections of both Canadian War Museum and The Imperial War Museum.
H. Devitt Welsh’s WWI US war poster 20” x 30” wonderful design…classic!
Artist: Henry Reuterdahl’s WWI poster, Enlist in the NAVY, US, 1917, 31.5” x 43.5”
From left to right: Japan, France, the United States, England, Russia, and Italy.
Dorothy Glogston’s 1918, US War Savings Stamps, 30” x 41”
Buy Victory Bonds, Canadian WWI, 1918 anon. poster. A play on Lord Tennyson’s famous poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (“Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die”)
All posters are original and were in various stages of damage ranging from fair to Oh-My-God! We fixed them as much as possible and perhaps, just perhaps we might avoid the need to produce more of these in the near future.
