Képeslapok, rajzok és egyéb ábrázolások az első világháborúból
Pictures, Drawings and Other Illustrations on Letters from the World War I

Summary/Abstract: The study presents a topic related to the World War I, topic that links to several other commemorations of the same historical event that started since 2014 all around the world. We used letters from the Collection of letters from the WWI from the former collection of the Archives of the Transylvanian National Museum, today kept in the Cluj County Branch of the Romanian National Archives. Our research focused on the first 91 boxes of the collection, which contain letters sent by soldiers to their relatives from Transylvania (except Banat, Partium and Maramureş). Our goal was to find letters that contain pictures, maps, drawings, songs, caricatures, prayers and pictures from the war. Based on the found material we tried to present certain aspects of the war propaganda and of the lives of the soldiers either from the frontlines, or of those who were left home. Because the WWI was a crucial historical event of our geographical area, it was an interesting challenge to fulfill the research in order to find out more about our ancestors’ way of thinking. The war propaganda material showed some exciting pictures and messages which demonstrate that our ancestors were creative in this field.

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