'Friends for ever' Franco-American postcard (France, January 1917)
A hand-tinted photographic postcard places a French soldier in an Adrian helmet and a US soldier in a campaign hat, arms around each other inside a laurel-ringed medallion, before intertwined French and US flags, a lighthouse and a warship. The tell is the stacking of national flags, laurel and ships around a friendship, so the image's affection is borrowed from the symbols, not shown by any act.
- Date
- January 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Furia (postcard publisher)
- Country
- France
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Briand Government
- Leader
- Aristide Briand
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain card (1917 print) with CC BY-SA 2.0 Flickr scan credit (Commons PD-1923, cc-by-sa-2.0)
Scan: j3net (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
FRIENDS FOR EVER FURIA 2069/2
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