If you buy the new war loan your country gets funds to carry on and win the war. [...] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex. – Vintage Print
![If you buy the new war loan your country gets funds to carry on and win the war. [...] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex., London : published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee, [1915] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa491e0c2850-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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This rare vintage poster captures If you buy the new war loan your country gets funds to carry on and win the war. [...] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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If you buy the new war loan your country gets funds to carry on and win the war. [...] / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld. Harrow, Middlesex.
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This poster relies entirely on words, with no illustration, to make its case: buying the new war loan is how the country finances the fight. Issued by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee in 1915, it reflects Britain's effort to pay for the First World War by borrowing from ordinary citizens as well as from banks and institutions. Campaigns like this one asked people of modest means to lend small sums to the state, turning private savings into public money for the war effort. David Allen & Sons, a Harrow firm that printed many government and advertising posters of the period, produced the lithograph.
| Created / published | London : published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee, [1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters British 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. Poster is text only. Poster no. 7. W.5322, 20M - 7/15. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Great Britain. War bonds & funds--Great Britain--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,026 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1433_If_you_buy_the_new_war_1915 |
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