Picture No | 10837359 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | Romance - 1917 by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon |
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"Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (Engaged).
Cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather showing a couple locked in an embrace having agreed to get engaged, and with the officer promising to give her his potatoes, a comment on food shortages, and particularly potatoes at this point in spring 1917.
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Source | Illustration by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, 18 April 1917 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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