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Women! Help America's sons win the war--Buy U.S. Government Bonds, 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / R.H. Porteus. – Antique Wall Art

Women! Help America's sons win the war--Buy U.S. Government Bonds, 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / R.H. Porteus., Chicago: Edwards and Deutsch Litho. Co., [1917] — vintage poster
Women! Help America's sons win the war--Buy U.S. Government Bonds, 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / R.H. Porteus., Chicago: Edwards and Deutsch Litho. Co., [1917]. Vintage poster from the Ellis Island collection.

(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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Addressed directly to women, this color lithograph urges them to "Help America's sons win the war" by buying U.S. Government Bonds during the Second Liberty Loan campaign of 1917. The Liberty Loans were the Treasury's main way of financing American participation in World War I, and posters like this one, printed in quantity by commercial firms such as Chicago's Edwards and Deutsch, carried the appeal into shops, offices and homes. Designed by R.H. Porteus and numbered 11 in its series, it shows how wartime campaigns cast women as active supporters of the troops overseas, not just bystanders.

Created / publishedChicago: Edwards and Deutsch Litho. Co., [1917]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 75 x 49 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920.
NotesNo. 11.
SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Women--American. War bonds & funds--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,352 × 3,621 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-223586

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