Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy U.S. government bonds Third Liberty Loan / Stern ; Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. N.Y. – Historic Print
![Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy U.S. government bonds Third Liberty Loan / Stern ; Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. N.Y., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/60/6076132827c5-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 Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy U.S. government bonds Third Liberty Loan / Stern ; Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. N.Y. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy U.S. government bonds Third Liberty Loan / Stern ; Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. N.Y.
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Are you 100% American? Prove it!" is the headline that sets this poster apart from the many bond appeals that appealed only to general patriotism, because it turns buying a government bond into a test of loyalty. The Liberty Loans were the federal government's way of financing American participation in World War I, and campaigns like this one pressed citizens, including recent immigrants, to show their allegiance by lending money to Washington. The color lithograph was printed by Sackett & Wilhelms of New York, a firm active in producing wartime posters, and the record credits the design to the artist Stern.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 74 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 10-A. |
| 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 | 3,781 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221536 |
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