Buy a bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan and help win the war – Vintage Print
![Buy a bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan and help win the war, New York : American Lithographic Co., [1917?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/13/13b94763eef8-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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The poster's headline asks viewers to buy a bond of the Second Liberty Loan, and its subject line credits a quotation from President Woodrow Wilson, who was in office when the United States entered the First World War in April 1917. The Liberty Loans were government bond drives that financed the war effort, and the second campaign ran in the autumn of 1917, when posters like this one were pasted in public places and shown in theaters. This color lithograph, numbered 8 in its series, was printed by the American Lithographic Company in New York, a firm that produced many wartime posters. It shows how the government turned ordinary citizens into lenders and asked them to see a bond purchase as a patriotic duty.
| Created / published | New York : American Lithographic Co., [1917?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 8. |
| Subjects | Wilson, Woodrow,--1856-1924,--Quotations. 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 | 3,282 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1269_Buy_a_bond_of_the_2nd_L_1917 |
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