no-kings-no-masters

[no-kings-no-masters]

“The Last Supper"  ☢️ (Details) by Adam Skovran

[no-kings-no-masters]

[no-kings-no-masters]

At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1963. Photo credit: Herb Slodounik.

[no-kings-no-masters]

Throughout the first world war, pets and mascots could be found on both sides to raise moral.

These animals also created better senses of community for people that may not share much else in common, as now they had a common goal that was not to fight but to care for a creature much more innocent than they had been forced to be.

The WWI pets and mascots gave comfort and companionship.

Dogs and cats were the most common pets and mascots but there were others; such as horses, goats, rabbits, birds, and more. Pets were also still kept at home, as those missing human companionship found equivalents.

Animals also had more functional uses, although that’s for another post. The most common examples are horses and pigeons/doves.

Horse riding still happened at war for fun though. Corps would hold annual horse shows that nurses and soldiers and all alike could watch.

-------------

Photo descriptions (including soldiers countries) attached to image captions

Photo credits: Imperial War Museums

[no-kings-no-masters]

Some more pictures of Clotilde d’Arc,

"The festivities of Saint Jeanne d’Arc in Orleans, this year.

The girl chosen to represent Jean d’Arc was Clotilde d’Arc, a direct descendant of Saint Jeanne d’Arc’s brother, 600 years ago."

[no-kings-no-masters]

The Evansville Courier, Indiana, January 4, 1923

[no-kings-no-masters]

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874 - 1951)

JC Leyendecker was a German-born artist that found a lot of his fame in the 1920s. He played a big part in modern paper advertising and also helped create American recruitment posters during the first world war.

On may 20 1899, he recieved his first commission for a Saturday Evening Post cover. He would go on to produce 322 covers for the magazine,

Leyendecker’s work could feature homoerotic undertones that may have been missed one hundred years ago. A piece I like that exemplifies this best is,

The nurse affectionately looks to the officer beside her, perhaps glancing not at his eyes but lower than that. But his attention isn’t on her, it’s to the man leaning back on the railing that shares a glance with him.

However, it was common in art and adverts of the time for a mans gaze to go past a woman. (But one can’t deny the fact that Leyendecker’s partner was Charles Beach).