Victory Bonds Will Help Stop This Kultur vs. Humanity
Unknown artist
1918
- Medium
- Color lithograph on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 91.3 × 60.8 cm (36 × 23 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- poster
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
posterprintprints and drawingpropagandapaper (fiber product)
About
The hospital ship Llandovery Castle was hit by a torpedo from German submarine U-86 on June 27, 1918, off the coast of southern Ireland, taking the lives of 234, the highest number of casualties caused by the sinking of a hospital ship. Shortly thereafter, the submarine surfaced and gunned down most of the survivors; only 24 were rescued.
