Help fill the war chest Humanity calls you May 20-27 / Ketterlinus Phila. – Historic Print
(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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Help fill the war chest Humanity calls you May 20-27 / Ketterlinus Phila.
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This lithograph asks viewers to "Help fill the war chest" during the May 20-27 campaign, a week of fundraising in the spring of 1917, just after the United States entered the First World War. The poster was printed by Ketterlinus of Philadelphia, a firm known for commercial and promotional color lithography. Its appeal is framed as a humanitarian call rather than a military one, reflecting how wartime fundraising for relief and support work was pitched to ordinary Americans. Posters like this one were pasted in shops, streetcars and post offices, and they show how the home front was asked to pay for the war effort.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Notes | No. W.P. 3. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Chests--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,645 × 4,550 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 509_Help_fill_the_war_chest_1917 |
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