Voilà les américains! ce que nous apporte l’amérique (The Americans Are Here! What America Brings Us)

Before the war, the little-known French artist Edouard Saunier created posters advertising popular entertainments, such as boxing and music halls. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1908 to 1914, and died from the Spanish flu a few days after the Armistice. Here he presented a comic view of American war support for the French. In this poster from 1918 the looming silhouette of a grinning American infantry soldier bears down upon a miniature German officer trying to pry open the door of the Western Front. Along the bottom border are vignettes on the extraordinary resources the United States brought to France and the Entente, in numbers of soldiers, industries, funds, and sea vessels.