Strike two! Help strike out military autocracy! Every Liberty Bond you buy helps win the war. – Antique Print
![Strike two! Help strike out military autocracy! Every Liberty Bond you buy helps win the war., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8dc0e2152187-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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Strike two! Help strike out military autocracy! Every Liberty Bond you buy helps win the war. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Strike two! Help strike out military autocracy! Every Liberty Bond you buy helps win the war.
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Playing on baseball's "strike two," this 1917 lithograph casts Crown Prince William of Germany, the son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a commander on the Western Front, as the target of an American appeal to buy Liberty Bonds. The United States had entered the First World War in April 1917, and the federal government sold Liberty Bonds to pay for the war effort, with each drive promoted through posters like this one. The poster links personal purchases to the fight against what it presents as German military autocracy, showing how wartime advertising used familiar sports imagery and recognizable enemy figures to make financial support feel patriotic.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 28 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | William,--Crown Prince of Germany,--1882-1951. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,697 × 3,757 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221516 |
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