Invest your money with Uncle Sam! Join the crowd - Buy a Liberty bond! – Vintage Print
![Invest your money with Uncle Sam! Join the crowd - Buy a Liberty bond!, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ad/add96a218af7-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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Invest your money with Uncle Sam! Join the crowd - Buy a Liberty bond! comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Invest your money with Uncle Sam! Join the crowd - Buy a Liberty bond!
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Uncle Sam is the figure doing the selling here, pitching the Liberty Loan bonds that the United States offered to finance its entry into the First World War. The poster's appeal is social as much as financial: the slogan "Join the crowd" asks the viewer to follow a line of neighbors rather than hold out. Liberty Loans were sold through a massive publicity effort that drew on lithographs like this one, along with rallies, newspaper advertising, and door-to-door canvassing. Posters of this kind are useful for seeing how the government tried to turn ordinary buyers into partners in the war effort.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 67 x 100 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,676 × 3,771 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221582 |
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