Keep these off the U.S.A. - Buy more Liberty Bonds / John Norton. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Keep these off the U.S.A. - Buy more Liberty Bonds / John Norton. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boots and blood, the two subjects this poster is catalogued under, set its message apart from the many Liberty Bond posters of 1917 that relied on portraits or patriotic symbols. The title, "Keep these off the U.S.A.," frames the bond purchase as a way to keep the war away from American soil. The United States had entered the war in April 1917, and the Treasury ran a series of Liberty Loan drives to finance the military effort, with posters like this one carried into shop windows, post offices and public squares. John Norton's color lithograph is a useful example of how wartime advertising tried to turn a financial appeal into a matter of personal alarm.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 102 x 77 cm. |
| Notes | No. 5 B. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Boots--1910-1920. Blood--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,001 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 316_Keep_these_off_the_USA_1917 |
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