I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier
Date
1915
Format
- Sheet Music 12
Type of Work
- Finished work 5388
Media
- paper 1176
Locations Made
- United States 569
This was the cover art for a series of anti-war songs by both Al Piantadosi and Alfred Bryan. They were songs that added to the anti-war movement during world war one. The cover depicted a mother grasping on to her son, imagining the horrific things they would endure if he was sent to war.
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