Souscrivez agrave lEmprunt de la Libeacuteration – Antique Wall Art
(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 Souscrivez agrave lEmprunt de la Libeacuteration, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This poster asks French readers to subscribe to the Liberation Loan of 1918, and its subject is a woman from Alsace, one of the region's regional markers appearing alongside French military figures and the tricolor. The loan drew on a theme that resonated strongly in 1918: Alsace and Lorraine, lost to Germany in 1871, were the territories France hoped to recover. Public war loans like this one were a major way the French state financed the war, and posters such as this, signed by Henri Royer, were designed to make that financial appeal feel patriotic and personal.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 80 x 60 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Subscribe to the Liberation Loan. Signed: Henri Royer. Three other issues: POS - Fr .R69 no. 2 (with text on bottom border 81 x 60 cm.) POS - Fr .R69 no. 2a (81 x 61 cm.) POS - Fr .R69 no. 2b (80 x 60 cm.). Woodward Lothrop donor. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1918. Item is no. 73 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR · Preissig Vojtech artist. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Military personnel--French. Women--France--Alsace--1910-1920. Flags--French--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,767 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 944_Souscrivez_agrave_lEmpr_1918 |
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