Buy Liberty Bonds – Historic Reproduction
![Buy Liberty Bonds, N[ew] Y[ork] : American Lithographic Co., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0c/0cd13feb85bd-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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Under the words "That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth," this 1917 color lithograph borrows Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to ask Americans to buy Liberty Bonds. The Treasury sold these bonds to finance the country's entry into World War I, and the government ran a series of Liberty Loan drives that year and the next, each supported by posters like this one. Pairing the nation's wartime borrowing with Lincoln's 1863 speech on a union kept whole through civil war was a deliberate appeal to shared sacrifice.
| Created / published | N[ew] Y[ork] : American Lithographic Co., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | for the people shall not perish from the earth" A. Lincoln. No. 12-A. Title from item." |
| Notes | That government of the people |
| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,045 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223235 |
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