Good Bye, Dad, I'm Off to Fight for Old Glory, You Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds – Antique Print
(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 historic image of Good Bye, Dad, I'm Off to Fight for Old Glory, You Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Good Bye, Dad, I'm Off to Fight for Old Glory, You Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds
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The title frames a family farewell as a request: a son heads off to fight for "Old Glory" while his father stays home and buys U.S. government bonds. The piece belongs to the Liberty Loan campaigns of the First World War, when the federal government borrowed heavily from its own citizens to pay for the war. Posters like this one appeared in shop windows, post offices and workplaces, presenting a bond purchase as a personal way to support men overseas. Its sentimental appeal, built on a family goodbye, was typical of wartime advertising of the period.
| Original scan | 3,796 × 4,760 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223430 |
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