Pour la liberté du monde. Souscrivez á l'emprunt national á la Banque Nationale de Crédit – Historic Print
![Pour la liberté du monde. Souscrivez á l'emprunt national á la Banque Nationale de Crédit, Paris : Imp. Devambez, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/10b46e91d912-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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Pour la liberté du monde. Souscrivez á l'emprunt national á la Banque Nationale de Crédit comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This French war-loan poster from 1917 sets the Statue of Liberty beside a call to subscribe to France's national loan, a rare case of the monument appearing in European wartime propaganda rather than as an American emblem. Its title, "For the freedom of the world," casts France's war effort and its financing as part of a shared cause, and the year matters: the United States entered the war in April 1917, so the image spoke to a newly joined ally. The poster is signed "SEM," the pen name of the caricaturist Georges Goursat, and was printed by Devambez in Paris. Its lithographed color and bold composition are typical of the large public posters that were pasted across French cities to sell war bonds.
| Created / published | Paris : Imp. Devambez, [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 119 x 77 cm. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1910-1920.War posters French 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Translation of title: For the freedom of the world. Subscribe to the National Loan at the Banque Nationale de Crédit. Signed: SEM. Woodward & Lothrop, donor. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1917. Item is no. 35 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR |
| Subjects | War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. Statue of Liberty National Monument (N.Y. and N.J.)--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,398 × 3,773 px · prints to 8 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-214208 |
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