Companie Algerienne, souscrire, c'est hater son retour avec la victoire [Compagnie Algérienne. To subscribe to [the loan] means victory, which will hasten his homecoming]

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Accession Number ARTV06333
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: COL. ; 114 X 80CM.
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Devambez Imprimerie
Jonas, Lucien-Hector
PARIS : COMPAGNIE ALGERIENNE, [N.D.] (PARIS : DEVAMBEZ)
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

An Algerian soldier embraces his wife holds their child's hand in her right hand, with a crowd of people and a donkey in the background. The child holds onto a toy cannon which symbolises his childhood ambitions.

This First World War poster acknowledges the colonial contribution paid by Algeria to France during the war.