Clear-the-way!! Buy bonds--Fourth liberty loan / Howard Chandler Christy. – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Clear-the-way!! Buy bonds--Fourth liberty loan / Howard Chandler Christy., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Clear-the-way!! Buy bonds--Fourth liberty loan / Howard Chandler Christy.
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Columbia, the symbolic figure of the United States, is the central subject of this poster, and its headline, "Clear-the-way!!", suggests a nation pushing forward past obstacles. Howard Chandler Christy, one of the best-known illustrators of his day, created it to promote the Fourth Liberty Loan, the bond drive the federal government ran in the fall of 1918 to help finance American participation in World War I. The record links the image to the war's naval operations and its economic side, reflecting how the government framed buying bonds as a patriotic duty on the home front.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. J8. 191-. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | Columbia (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War 1914-1918--Naval operations--American. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,047 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 607_Cleartheway_Buy_bondsFo_ |
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