Lend the way they fight--Buy bonds to your utmost Music makes for morale--A singing army is a fighting army / W.G.S. – Vintage Wall Art
![Lend the way they fight--Buy bonds to your utmost Music makes for morale--A singing army is a fighting army / W.G.S., Brooklyn, N.Y. : Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/46/46f6e7f88e95-L.webp)
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Lend the way they fight--Buy bonds to your utmost Music makes for morale--A singing army is a fighting army / W.G.S. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lend the way they fight--Buy bonds to your utmost Music makes for morale--A singing army is a fighting army / W.G.S.
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The slogan on this 1917 poster sets home-front finance beside the battlefield: it asks readers to lend the way soldiers fight and to buy bonds to their utmost. The year matched the United States' entry into the First World War, when the federal government needed large sums quickly and turned to Liberty Bonds sold through repeated Liberty Loan drives. Posters like this one carried those appeals into streets, shop windows and workplaces, presenting a bond purchase as a patriotic duty for ordinary households. The direct comparison in its wording is worth noticing when reading the design as wartime persuasion.
| Created / published | Brooklyn, N.Y. : Latham Litho. & Ptg. Co., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 69 x 99 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | F. 209-D. Poster has been cut to irregular shape. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. Grenades--1910-1920. Bugles--1910-1920. Singing--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,490 × 3,603 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221530 |
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