Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France – Antique Print
![Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France, Paris : Imp. Crété, [1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/00e1b4612f1f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France
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Few wartime posters link a bond drive so directly to a family's land. Here a mother and children work the fields, and the French title promises to "return to us the entire sweet land of France." That refers to the regions in the north and east occupied by German forces since 1914, so the loan was framed as a way to win back the countryside. Issued in 1918 by the Société Générale, the bank that marketed the national loan, the lithograph is signed by the artist B. Chavannaz. Wartime loans like this one raised money to pay for the army and for the postwar recovery that was expected to follow.
| Created / published | Paris : Imp. Crété, [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 79 x 113 cm. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1910-1920.War posters French 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Translation of title: National Loan 1918. Société Générale, to return to us the entire sweet land of France. Signed: B. Chavannaz. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1918. Item is no. 14 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--1910-1920. Farming--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,797 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214183 |
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