Help our town win the right to fly this flag--Third Liberty Loan honor roll / The W.F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y. – Historic Reproduction
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(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 vintage poster of Help our town win the right to fly this flag--Third Liberty Loan honor roll / The W.F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Help our town win the right to fly this flag--Third Liberty Loan honor roll / The W.F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y.
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This poster makes its appeal plainly: a town could win the right to fly an honor flag, and its blank border leaves room to attach a list of local bond buyers. The Treasury Department awarded such flags to communities whose residents subscribed heavily to the Third Liberty Loan, the bond drive held in the spring of 1918. The text presents each name on that list as someone helping to win the war, turning a financial purchase into a matter of civic pride. The W.F. Powers Company of New York printed it as a color lithograph.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 70 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Caption: Honor flag Third Liberty Loan awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department. At bottom: These are the people of our town who are helping to win the war by investing in government bonds of the Third Liberty Loan." Poster border allows space to attach a list of bond purchasers." |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. Flags--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,786 × 4,726 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221535 |
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