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The last ditch / C. D. Gibson. - Public domain  engraving

The last ditch / C. D. Gibson. - Public domain engraving

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Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy pushing a German soldier labeled "Militarism" into a ditch in which a skeleton awaits him with open arms.
Title from Life magazine.
Published in: Life, 1917 March 22, pp. 484-485.
Gift; Charles D. Gibson; 1990; (DLC/PP-1990:040).
Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - June 2018.

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01/01/1917
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Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, artist
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Thomas Jefferson Building38.88872, -77.00553
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Library of Congress
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