Raemaekers, Louis, 1869-1956

Scope and Contents Set of 7 reproductions of cartoons by Dutch journalist Louis Raemaekers. "The German government offered 10,000 pounds to suppress the series of cartoons of which the following are a part, but without avail....." Cartoon titles include: "Why did she not yield? They would have paid, to be sure!" "On the way to Calais" "Well, have you nearly done?" "Our father which art in heaven." "But mother had done nothing wrong, had she daddy?" "Is it still a long way to...

Scope and Contents Bookseller's description: ...two British foot soldiers carrying a wounded American soldier back from the front. Raemaeker heard of atrocities being committed by the Germans during WWI that were not believed by the people of neutral Netherlands. In 1914 he slipped across the border to Belgium where he became an eye witness to the unspeakable barbarity, transforming this painter of pastoral scenes to the most famous anti-German propagandist of the Great War. His wartime drawings had such...

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Consists of manuscripts, letters, photographs, artifacts and ephemera.