'Street Life, 1916' by Hans Larwin, a native of Vienna and painter of the war on multiple fronts, including the home front. A bread line, chiefly of women, waits along the shopfronts to buy bread. To the left, a policeman stands guard.

Hans Larwin



Straßenbild 1916



Street Life, 1916



Reverse:

Galerie Wiener Künstler Nr. 681.



Gallery of Viennese Artists, No. 681.



W.R.B. & Co, W. III.

Other views: Larger

Wednesday, January 24, 1917

"— On the 22nd, the newspapers announced the forthcoming restriction of restaurant menus to no more than two dishes, and two days a week without pastries.

— The 24th. The coal crisis, foretold for the 20th, has broken out. Great excitement in the Chamber. The workers in a munitions factory, now closed, have just made a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Public Works, and then marched as far as the Opéra. Hundreds of women are queuing up outside the large shops. They have been sent away after waiting for hours in the bitter cold.

— A novel sight in Paris—many shops with frost on their windows, as there is no more fuel for central heating."

Quotation Context

Entries for January 23 and 24, 1917 from the diary of Michel Corday, French senior civil servant.

Source

The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 226, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934

Tags

1917-01-24, 1917, January, Paris, coal crisis, coal shortage, food shortage, queue, food line