Before sunset to-day buy a Liberty Bond – Antique Wall Art
![Before sunset to-day buy a Liberty Bond, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8d62da9dd9a7-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Before sunset to-day buy a Liberty Bond. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Before sunset to-day buy a Liberty Bond
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The poster's urgent line, "Before sunset to-day buy a Liberty Bond," is printed beneath a sunset view of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, with American flags framing the scene. Dated 1917, it belongs to the wave of Liberty Loan campaigns that the United States used to raise money for World War I, when the government sold bonds to citizens to finance the war effort. Posters like this one linked the Statue, long a symbol of freedom and welcome, to the duty of buying bonds. Its bold color lithography and deadline-driven wording show how wartime advertising tried to turn a financial decision into a patriotic act.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 28 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Flags--American--1910-1920. Sunrises & sunsets--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,956 × 2,061 px · prints to 13 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221499 |
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