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Knitting cartoon, WW1

A cartoon from the First World War, turning the tables on the activity of knitting comforts for the troops. Instead, soldiers in the trenches are pictured busy knitting warm clothing for society women, who are pictured with bare shoulders and very low decolletage

Picture No
13991136
Media ID
45427017
Size
5000px x 3564px (1.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration in Puck reproduced in The Tatler, 7 April 1915
Date
1915

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