Hello! This is liberty speaking - billions of dollars are needed and needed now / Z.P. Nikolaki. – 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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This rare vintage poster captures Hello! This is liberty speaking - billions of dollars are needed and needed now / Z.P. Nikolaki. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hello! This is liberty speaking - billions of dollars are needed and needed now / Z.P. Nikolaki.
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Here the Statue of Liberty is the one doing the talking, and the poster's title puts her plea in her own voice: billions of dollars are needed, and needed now. Printed in 1918, it belongs to the series of Liberty Loan campaigns the U.S. Treasury ran to finance American participation in the First World War, drives that relied on posters, rallies, and salesmanship to reach ordinary citizens. The urgency in the caption reflects how expensive the war had become for a country that had entered it only in 1917. Notice how the artist turns the national monument into a figure of direct appeal rather than a distant symbol.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 31 x 23 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,601 × 4,537 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221510 |
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