Mr. Farmer [...] The government has helped you! You help the government - Buy Liberty Bonds – Historic Print
![Mr. Farmer [...] The government has helped you! You help the government - Buy Liberty Bonds, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5e7b30531f82-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.)
Description
This vintage poster of Mr. Farmer [...] The government has helped you! You help the government - Buy Liberty Bonds brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Mr. Farmer [...] The government has helped you! You help the government - Buy Liberty Bonds
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Addressed to "Mr. Farmer," this lithograph makes a direct appeal to rural Americans: the government has helped you, so now you should help the government by buying Liberty Bonds. The United States entered World War I in April 1917, and Congress authorized Liberty Loans to finance the war effort by selling bonds to the public, so the poster was part of a broad national campaign rather than a single appeal. Its message ties the purchase to a sense of reciprocity between citizens and the state. The farm audience reflects how essential agricultural production and rural savings were to the wartime economy.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,763 × 4,657 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222792 |
More from the Barns & Farms collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
