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Victory Bonds will help stop this. Kulture vs. humanity

Victory Bonds will help stop this. Kulture vs. humanity

Poster shows a Canadian soldier holding a drowned Red Cross worker and raising his fist at the sailors on the nearby German submarine. Poster is a reference to the sinking of the Canadian Red Cross transport sh... More

How many have you sent? / J.S. Pughe.

How many have you sent? / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with Uncle Sam at center drowning in the "Souvenir Post Card Craze", surrounded by scenes from the North Pole, North Africa, Hell, and with Robinson Crusoe on a desert isla... More

Drowning in his own "pool" / F. Graetz.

Drowning in his own "pool" / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows Jay Gould drowning in "Watered Stocks" certificates, some labeled "Watered W.U.T." and "Watered Wabash", at the bottom of the steps to Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City. William H.... More

Take up the sword of justice / B.P.

Take up the sword of justice / B.P.

Poster shows a classical figure, with arms raised, holding a sword. The figure is surrounded by drowning people and in the background the oceanliner Lusitania is sinking.

Bolschewismus heisst die Welt im Blut ersäufen / Safis, 19.

Bolschewismus heisst die Welt im Blut ersäufen / Safis, 19.

Poster shows a wolf standing near a pool of blood in which a man is drowning; in background, destroyed buildings. Text: Bolshevism means the world will drown in blood. Association to Fight Against Bolshevism. F... More

Lincoln- "I'm sorry to have to drop you, Sambo, but this concern won't carry us both!"

Lincoln- "I'm sorry to have to drop you, Sambo, but this concern won't...

Print shows Abraham Lincoln, in a life preserver labeled "Union", on a storm tossed sea, pushing away an African American man who had been clinging to him; next to them floats a hat with papers labeled "Fremont... More

Caricature, Investors beware! / Dalrymple., public domain cartoon image

Caricature, Investors beware! / Dalrymple., public domain cartoon imag...

Illustration shows investors drowning in rough seas labeled "Wall Street," and "Speculation," and a tophat labeled "Ingenuous Investor" caught in a whirlpool labeled "Iron and Steel Trust." Illus. in: Puck, v.... More

Luxuries versus lifeboats / Kep., Political Cartoon

Luxuries versus lifeboats / Kep., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows an ocean liner sinking amid icebergs with many passengers jumping into the sea for lack of enough lifeboats, as a few lifeboats loaded with passengers row clear of the ship. Caption: The Gri... More

Hope / N.Y. - Print, Library of Congress collection

Hope / N.Y. - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a drowning woman being pulled from turbulent waters by an angel onto a small island on which is a large stone cross; the angel gestures toward the sun shining through dark clouds. D2798 U.S. Copyrig... More

Caricature, A stage whisper, public domain cartoon image

Caricature, A stage whisper, public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows a handsome young man rescuing a beautiful young woman from drowning. Caption: Her Rescuer (soothingly) You're safe. I've got you, but I was just in the nick of time. / The Actress (weakly) ... More

Life rescue at Long Branch /

Life rescue at Long Branch /

Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Enlist / Fred Spear. during World War I

Enlist / Fred Spear. during World War I

Poster showing a woman, a passenger from the Lusitania, submerged in water cradling an infant in her arms. Issued by The Boston Public Safety Committee. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. ... More

Last stand of the anti-imperialist / Keppler.

Last stand of the anti-imperialist / Keppler.

Illustration shows anti-imperialists George F. Hoar, Carl Schurz, Edward Atkinson, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Andrew Carnegie drowning in "Quicksand of Public Opinion" with the U.S. Capitol building in the... More

Hope / N.Y. - Print, Library of Congress collection

Hope / N.Y. - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a drowning woman being pulled from turbulent waters by an angel onto a small island on which is a large stone cross; the angel gestures toward the sun shining through dark clouds. D2798 U.S. Copyrig... More

My child! My child! / engraved and published by John C. McRae, N.Y.

My child! My child! / engraved and published by John C. McRae, N.Y.

Photograph shows a night scene of a women drowning at sea, holding her infant aloft. In the foreground, a broken mast and tattered sails. The picture is a companion piece to McRae's "They're saved! They're save... More

Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T. ; John Shuley & Co., Dublin.

Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T...

Poster showing the Lusitania in flames and sinking, with people in the water and lifeboats in the foreground. Wt. P. 110 - 7,500. 5/'15. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in t... More

Turner - The slave ship - Drawing. Public domain image.

Turner - The slave ship - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title from jacket. Photograph of painting. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 29618. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

4 years an international success, A guilty mother a play that reaches the heart.

4 years an international success, A guilty mother a play that reaches ...

10781 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Taint no ghost but a real, live lady. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." Direction, Henry Myers (i.e., Meyers). No. 3662. Forms part of: T... More

"Where's my square deal?" / J.S. Pughe.

"Where's my square deal?" / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows James H. Hyde labeled "Life Insurance Company" drowning in a sea of papers labeled "Exposure, Bribery, Syndicate Profits, Dummy Deals, Wholesale Graft, Fake Transactions, Juggled Reports, 'Ye... More

[The slave ship]. Public domain reproduction.

[The slave ship]. Public domain reproduction.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T. ; John Shuley & Co., Dublin.

Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T...

Poster showing the Lusitania in flames and sinking, with people in the water and lifeboats in the foreground. Wt. P. 110 - 7,500. 5/'15. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in t... More

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hope / N.Y. - Print, Library of Congress collection

Hope / N.Y. - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a drowning woman being pulled from turbulent waters by an angel onto a small island on which is a large stone cross; the angel gestures toward the sun shining through dark clouds. D2798 U.S. Copyrig... More

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

And in the meantime-- / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

And in the meantime-- / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Uncle Sam imploring a man labeled "ISCC", sitting on a railroad bridge, to throw a life preserver labeled "Permission to Raise Freight Rates" to a man labeled "The Railroads" drowning in a ri... More

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indians drowning the Spaniards J.W. Orr, N.Y

Indians drowning the Spaniards J.W. Orr, N.Y

The tribe of Quiqualtangui, probably in Louisiana, drowning the Spaniards. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T... More

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

It beats anything for a sinking spell

It beats anything for a sinking spell

No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Our fishing party scenes and mechanical effects

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.