Your war savings pledge Our boys make good their pledge--Are you keeping yours? / A.A.P. – Historic Reproduction
![Your war savings pledge Our boys make good their pledge--Are you keeping yours? / A.A.P., Government Printing Office, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/13/136a1c474098-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Your war savings pledge Our boys make good their pledge--Are you keeping yours? / A.A.P.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Your war savings pledge Our boys make good their pledge--Are you keeping yours? / A.A.P.
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Uncle Sam anchors this poster's appeal to civilians, whose slogan asks whether they are keeping the pledge that "our boys" are making at the front. Issued by the Government Printing Office around 1917, it promoted War Savings Stamps, low-cost government securities sold to help finance the First World War. Like the Liberty Loan drives, the stamps invited ordinary citizens, including those who could not afford full bonds, to lend money to the nation. The poster ties military sacrifice to personal saving, a common wartime tactic for presenting financial support as patriotic duty.
| Created / published | Government Printing Office, [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 82 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | W.S.S., War Savings Stamps issued by the United States government. |
| Subjects | Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,786 × 4,730 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221534 |
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