Carry on! Buy Liberty Bonds to your utmost / Edwin Howland Blashfield. – 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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Carry on! Buy Liberty Bonds to your utmost / Edwin Howland Blashfield.
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Sponsored by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, this tall color lithograph urges viewers to "Carry on!" and buy Liberty Bonds to the utmost of their means. Liberty Loans were government bonds sold to the public to help pay for American participation in the First World War, and the slogan links the bond drive to the wider effort on the home front. Edwin Howland Blashfield, a painter best known for large allegorical murals, designed the poster, and its narrow vertical format suits a single, upright composition. Its 1918 date places it among the many bond posters issued that year.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 193 x 99 cm. |
| Notes | Title from item. · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Campaigns & battles--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 800 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 405_Carry_on_Buy_Liberty_Bo_1918 |
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