If you cant enlist invest - Buy a Liberty Bond - Defend your country with your dollars / Winsor McCay. – Antique Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with If you cant enlist invest - Buy a Liberty Bond - Defend your country with your dollars / Winsor McCay., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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If you cant enlist invest - Buy a Liberty Bond - Defend your country with your dollars / Winsor McCay.
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Few war posters came from a cartoonist as famous as Winsor McCay, the creator of the *Little Nemo* comic strip and the animated film *Gertie the Dinosaur*. Here he turns his pen to the home front, telling those who could not enlist to buy a Liberty Bond instead. Liberty Bonds let the U.S. government borrow from ordinary citizens to pay for the war after the country entered in 1917, and the 1918 bond campaigns relied on posters like this one to reach the public. The slogan "Defend your country with your dollars" frames financial support as a patriotic duty.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 107 x 70 cm. |
| Notes | Copyright Star Co. New York American. No. 37. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,024 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1434_If_you_cant_enlist_inve_1918 |
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