Crush the Prussian--Buy a bond--3rd Liberty Loan – Vintage Print
![Crush the Prussian--Buy a bond--3rd Liberty Loan, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0d/0df838ad81ee-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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Crush the Prussian--Buy a bond--3rd Liberty Loan comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Crush the Prussian--Buy a bond--3rd Liberty Loan
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Its slogan, "Crush the Prussian," pairs a call to buy a bond with the image of a tank, and the record ties the poster to trench warfare and to the military use of tanks. The Liberty Loans were the federal government's bond drives to pay for American participation in World War I, and posters like this one carried the appeal to factories, storefronts and street corners. Tanks had first appeared in combat on the Western Front in 1916, and they were often presented as machines that could break the deadlock of trench warfare. The poster links a request for money at home to the mechanized, muddy reality of the front.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 106 x 72 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Trench warfare. Campaigns & battles--1910-1920. Tanks (Military science)--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,580 × 4,462 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222248 |
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