Austrian Asphyxiating Apparatus Captured on Italian Front
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
Austrian Asphyxiating Apparatus Captured on Italian Front
ca. 1917
Letterpress print
Image: 7 x 6.7 cm
Overall: 8.2 x 14 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
Inscriptions verso (printed in black): No. 13-AUSTRIAN ASPHYXIATING APPARATUS CAPTURED ON ITALIAN FRONT /
This Italian soldier is some "husky" chap. / He is holding up, for your inspection, one of / those devilish machines invented by German / chemists, to add new horrors to this barbaric / war. These are "weapons" which "our own / Boys" will meet up with and it is well for them / and you to learn to know them. When, in / future, you read of Allied trenches being at-/tacked by German troops, armed with asphyx-/iating apparatus you will know what is meant, / -because this one will "pop up" in your / Memory and your Imagination can multiply it / ten thousand times. [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
This Italian soldier is some "husky" chap. / He is holding up, for your inspection, one of / those devilish machines invented by German / chemists, to add new horrors to this barbaric / war. These are "weapons" which "our own / Boys" will meet up with and it is well for them / and you to learn to know them. When, in / future, you read of Allied trenches being at-/tacked by German troops, armed with asphyx-/iating apparatus you will know what is meant, / -because this one will "pop up" in your / Memory and your Imagination can multiply it / ten thousand times. [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
