Have you bought your Liberty Bond? U means you, S means subscribe, A means at once / Franklin Printing Co., Phila., Pa. – Vintage Wall Art
![Have you bought your Liberty Bond? U means you, S means subscribe, A means at once / Franklin Printing Co., Phila., Pa., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/54/548bbbf364be-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 Have you bought your Liberty Bond? U means you, S means subscribe, A means at once / Franklin Printing Co., Phila., Pa.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Have you bought your Liberty Bond? U means you, S means subscribe, A means at once / Franklin Printing Co., Phila., Pa.
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Its appeal rests entirely on words: the headline spells out U.S.A. as a call to action, with U meaning you, S meaning subscribe, and A meaning at once. Dated 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it belongs to the campaign to raise money through Liberty Bonds, government securities sold to citizens to help pay for the war effort. The small print assures buyers that payments could be made in installments and directs them to their employer or any bank to subscribe. Campaigns like this one turned ordinary wage earners into lenders to the federal government.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 52 x 35 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Text continues: [...] Payments may be made in installments. Ask your employer or any bank how to subscribe. Poster is text only. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,585 × 4,453 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222368 |
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