Alsace - Lorraine President Wilson's Address to Congress, Jan. 8, 1918 Original WWI Poster
- 1918
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16 1/2 x 24 inches ~ (40 x 60 cm)$185
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $80 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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"Citizens possessed of souls and of intelligence, are not merchandise to be traded and therefore it is not lawful to make them the subject of a contract" - Protest of the Representatives of Alsace-Lorraine, delivered in the Reichstag in Berlin, February 18, 1874.
"...Peopes and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a game" - President Wilson Address to Congress February 11, 1918.
In the center is an 1871 painting of an Alsatian woman by J.J. Henner titled "She Is Waiting."
