collections1914-1918

www.europeana1914-1918.euObjects at frontpage: Military map with bullet hole, having brought an end to the life of Walter Flex, 1917 | W. Trier: Karte von Europa im Jahr 1914 (satirical map of Europe) | H. Rikli: Hurra! [1915] (children’s book) | W. Henck: Der Hund auf dem Schlachtfelde, 1915 (Dog at the battlefi eld)

collections1914-1918

Europeana Collections 1914-1918: Remembering the First World War

Digitising masterpieces of Europe’s cultural heritageEuropeana Collections 1914-1918 has created a substantial digital collection of master-pieces of Europe’s cultural heritage : books, newspapers, trench journals, maps, music sheets, photographs, posters, pamphlets, medals and more from national libraries and other partners from eight European countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic confl ict. The three-year project makes over 400,000 WWI sources publicly and freely available online via Europeana for the fi rst time.