POSTCARD INSPIRATION

Europeana 1914-1918

German U-boats washed up on UK Beaches

Guido Vermeulen

EARLY 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALAN PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

How could you use ideas from these early photographic portraits in your mail art?

These images are taken from 6"x4" glass plate negatives of people who found themselves in the NSW penal system soon after WWI.

Did any of these people serve in the armed forces?

They would certainly have close connections with people who did.

Perhaps the war had something to do with them falling on hard times.

Original Source

WWI CORRESPONDENCE

Vern, Bert, Percy & Viv Smythe
(image from Smythe Family Letters website)

Below are some links to websites that contain references to personal correspondence from WWI.

Smythe Family Letters

Letters from Gallipoli

State Library of Victoria (ERGO)

The IN THEIR HONOUR website is a searchable database
which lists all soldiers killed in WWI & WWII.
You may have a relative you might want to search for.

AUSTRALIAN HORSES (WALERS) OF WWI

Of the 136,000 walers (the general term used for Australian horses used in WWI) only 1 returned to Australia at the end of the conflict.  See his story here.

Find a bit of history about the Australian Light Horse here, here and here

Australian Light Horse in the Snow, France 1917

WOMEN OF WORLD WAR I

WWI MAIL ART INSPIRATION

Otto Dix

Aleksandr Rodchenko

Artist Unknown

Joanne Teasdale

Conrad Felixmuller

Beata Wehr

Michael Douglas Jones

Rachel Phillips

Mark Powell

Oleg Denisenko

Mrs Sawbones