Back up our boys with your Liberty Bond You buy Liberty Bonds and Uncle Sam's boys will do the rest. – Vintage Wall Art
![Back up our boys with your Liberty Bond You buy Liberty Bonds and Uncle Sam's boys will do the rest., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4b/4b198b5dcbf5-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Back up our boys with your Liberty Bond You buy Liberty Bonds and Uncle Sam's boys will do the rest.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Back up our boys with your Liberty Bond You buy Liberty Bonds and Uncle Sam's boys will do the rest.
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Few posters from the First World War pushed the Liberty Loan drives as bluntly as this one, which ties the purchase of a bond directly to the fate of American troops in the field. Its slogan, "Back up our boys with your Liberty Bond," reflects the Treasury's campaign to finance the war through public loans, and the 1917 date places it in the first of those drives, when the United States had just entered the conflict. The poster was issued with a United Cigars notice, a reminder that private companies often printed and distributed such material as a form of patriotic support. Its soldiers with fixed bayonets and rifles show the bond framed as a kind of ammunition for the men at the front.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 66 x 101 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United Cigars. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. Soldiers--American--1910-1920. Bayonets--1910-1920. Rifles--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,672 × 3,761 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221580 |
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