If you can't enlist, invest! Buy a Liberty bond – Vintage Wall Art
![If you can't enlist, invest! Buy a Liberty bond, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/bab2d2c64ecf-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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Step back in time with If you can't enlist, invest! Buy a Liberty bond, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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If you can't enlist, invest! Buy a Liberty bond
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Its title makes the appeal direct: for those who could not enlist, the way to serve was with money. Dated 1917, the year the United States entered the First World War, it belongs to the Liberty Loan campaigns that asked ordinary Americans to buy government bonds to pay for the war. Posters like this one framed bond buying as a patriotic duty for people kept at home, including those too old, too young, or otherwise unfit for military service. Notice how the wording presents investment as a civic act rather than a financial decision.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 72 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,005 × 4,923 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222399 |
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