Coming Victory Liberty Loan war train – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Coming Victory Liberty Loan war train. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Coming Victory Liberty Loan war train
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This 1918 lithograph advertises a traveling war train carrying captured German cannons, helmets, gas masks, trench mortars (the poster calls them "minnenwerfers"), machine guns, and a whippet tank. Such exhibition trains toured towns to build support for war loan drives, letting crowds inspect enemy equipment up close at no charge. The poster is text only, with blank spaces left for local dates and venues, so each town could fill in its own details. Its stress on free admission and salvaged enemy gear shows how wartime bond campaigns turned spectacle into a way of selling public support.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 96 x 64 cm. |
| Notes | Text continues: Relics from over there. Captured German cannons helmets gas masks bomb throwing machines famous minnenweffers machine guns of all kinds whippet tank armored car and many other interesting articles. Free. Free. [blank spaces for local exhibition details] Poster is text only. Title from item. · Vega Drouet Hector. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Exhibitions--Canada. World War 1914-1918--Communications--Canada. Exhibitions--Canada--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,017 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 828_Coming_Victory_Liberty_1918 |
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