Remember your first thrill of American liberty Your duty - Buy United States government bonds--2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. N.Y. – 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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A window into the past: Remember your first thrill of American liberty Your duty - Buy United States government bonds--2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. N.Y., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Remember your first thrill of American liberty Your duty - Buy United States government bonds--2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. N.Y.
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A 1917 lithograph from the New York firm Sackett & Wilhelms pairs the Statue of Liberty with immigrants on a ship's deck, urging viewers to remember their "first thrill of American liberty" and buy government bonds. It was issued for the Second Liberty Loan, a bond drive the federal government ran in the fall of 1917 to help pay for American entry into World War I, which had begun that April. The poster links the wartime appeal to the story of arrival, a theme that tied the nearby Ellis Island station to the country's sense of itself. Its subject headings also point to the war's economic side, when civilians were asked to finance the war as well as serve in it.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 9. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. Immigrants--United States--1910-1920. Decks (Ships)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,580 × 3,858 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223248 |
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