Liberty, freed, humanity's need! / Alex. O. Levy. – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Liberty, freed, humanity's need! / Alex. O. Levy.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Liberty, freed, humanity's need! / Alex. O. Levy.
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The title, "Liberty, freed, humanity's need!", frames this 1918 color lithograph around peace rather than battle, a shift that marks it apart from the recruiting and war-bond posters of the same years. Alex O. Levy's poster belongs to the wave of allegorical prints that American artists produced during and just after World War I, when personified ideals such as Liberty were used to explain the national cause. Its date places it in the final months of the war, as the Armistice of November 1918 approached, when the public was turning to the question of what peace would mean.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Allegorical prints 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Peace. Liberty--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,810 × 4,745 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 50_Liberty_freed_humanitys_1918 |
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