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Uncle Sam says: All the kings in the world can't beat my hand" – Vintage Print

Uncle Sam says: All the kings in the world can't beat my hand", [1917] — vintage poster
Uncle Sam says: All the kings in the world can't beat my hand", [1917]. Vintage poster from the World War I collection.

(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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Step back in time with Uncle Sam says: All the kings in the world can't beat my hand", a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Uncle Sam says: All the kings in the world can't beat my hand"

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Uncle Sam leans over a card table here, playing his hand against the German Kaiser in a lithograph built on a poker metaphor. The poster is a 1917 call for home-front cooperation, issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement from its New York office on Church Street. Its message ties national safety and industrial prosperity to the loyalty and efficiency of American workers and consumers, urging them to "pull together and call the Kaiser's bluff." Posters like this one were part of a broad effort during the First World War to rally civilians behind economic mobilization, asking ordinary Americans to produce and spend in ways that supported the war effort.

Created / published[1917]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 63 x 47 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs 1910-1920.
NotesTitle continues: National safety and industrial prosperity are dependent upon the loyalty and efficiency of our producing and consuming citizens. The rules of the war game make victory inevitable for the best partners holding the strongest cards. Pull together and call the Kaiser's bluff! Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement - Copies supplied on request - 30 Church Street, New York City. No. E-9.
SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. Playing cards--1910-1920. War work--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,781 × 4,677 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference1202_Uncle_Sam_says_All_the_1917

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