Emprunt National. Socieacuteteacute Geacuteneacuterale. Pour le suprecircme effort – Vintage 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 Emprunt National. Socieacuteteacute Geacuteneacuterale. Pour le suprecircme effort. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Emprunt National. Socieacuteteacute Geacuteneacuterale. Pour le suprecircme effort
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Few French war loan posters of 1918 are as openly martial as this one, which urges readers toward "the supreme effort" in the war's final year. It was issued under the name of the Société Générale, one of the banks that took subscriptions to the national loan, and it is signed by the artist M. Falter. Posters like this were pasted across French towns to persuade ordinary citizens that buying bonds was a patriotic duty as much as a financial one. The soldiers and eagle listed among its subjects show how imagery of sacrifice and national strength was pressed into that cause.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 120 x 79 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: National Loan. Socieacuteteacute Geacuteneacuterale. For the greatest effort. Signed: M. Falter. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1918. Item is no. 33 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Military personnel--French. Eagles--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,790 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 741_Emprunt_National_Sociea_1918 |
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