About This Item
Title
Cours dire à maman qu'on est prisonnier de guerre, avec la boite au lait
Subject
Prisoners of War
World War I
Postcards
Drawings
Cartoons
Description
Postcard with a drawing of French boy being led off by a German soldier, with the boy telling his siblings to run and tell their mother that he has been taken a prisoner of war.
With artist's signature: Poublot.
Title from image.
Date based on likely year of purchase by Dr. George W. Norris while stationed in France, 1917-1918.
Creator
Poulbot, Francisque, 1879-1946
Source
Original photograph in: Norris, George William, 1875-1965. Diary, World War I (Philadelphia, 1959), page 118. ZZ10c 5 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
between 1917? and 1918?
Language
fre
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZZ10c_5.118a
Temporal Coverage
History, 20th Century
Original Format
1 print (postcard format)
Physical Dimensions
9 x 13 cm
Citation
Poulbot, Francisque, 1879-1946, “Cours dire à maman qu'on est prisonnier de guerre, avec la boite au lait,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed May 2, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/1524.