If you can't enlist--invest Buy Liberty bonds--See your bank today. – Vintage Print
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(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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If you can't enlist--invest Buy Liberty bonds--See your bank today. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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If you can't enlist--invest Buy Liberty bonds--See your bank today.
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Here the Statue of Liberty serves as a recruiter for the home front, with the slogan telling viewers that if they cannot enlist, they can invest by buying Liberty bonds at their bank. The United States entered the First World War in April 1917, and the federal government soon began selling Liberty Bonds to pay for the war effort. Posters like this one asked ordinary citizens to take part through their savings, and the statue, already a national emblem of freedom, made the appeal easy to recognize. The record places it in the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection, a group of early twentieth-century American prints.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 69 x 52 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | Statue of Liberty National Monument (N.Y. and N.J.)--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,407 × 3,210 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222402 |
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