Remember Belgium--Buy bonds--Fourth Liberty Loan / Ellsworth Young. – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Remember Belgium--Buy bonds--Fourth Liberty Loan / Ellsworth Young., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Remember Belgium--Buy bonds--Fourth Liberty Loan / Ellsworth Young.
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Remember Belgium" asks Americans to buy bonds by recalling a foreign country's suffering, which makes this 1918 poster unusual among war appeals. It was issued for the Fourth Liberty Loan, the autumn 1918 drive to finance the American war effort. German forces overran Belgium in August 1914, and reports of civilian killings, hostage taking and the burning of the library at Louvain spread widely in the United States and hardened public opinion. The poster's subjects, which include Belgian children and German military conduct, turn that memory into a direct argument for lending money to the war.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S.J8. 1918. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. World War 1914-1918--Children--Belgium. Military personnel--German--Belgium--1910-1920. Atrocities--German--Belgium--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,037 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 264_Remember_BelgiumBuy_bon_1918 |
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