2-710-891 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Krupp's', (1919). 'This famous cannon foundry, where most of the engines of war employed by the German nation are manufactured, is situated in Essen, a town in the Rhenish Prussian coalfields. In 1848, when the business was founded, there were employed only 74 men - today they number an army of over 60,000 men engaged in the manufacture of death-dealing instruments of war for the great European War Lord'. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. II, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]