Wake up Lancaster! Your sons are fighting for you--Sacrifice to help them win--Buy Liberty bonds / C.W. Drepperd. – 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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Wake up Lancaster! Your sons are fighting for you--Sacrifice to help them win--Buy Liberty bonds / C.W. Drepperd. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wake up Lancaster! Your sons are fighting for you--Sacrifice to help them win--Buy Liberty bonds / C.W. Drepperd.
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Addressed directly to the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this 1918 color lithograph by C.W. Drepperd asks residents to back the sons who were fighting overseas by buying Liberty bonds. The Liberty Loan campaigns were the federal government's way of financing the war effort, and posters like this one carried that appeal into local communities, where civic pride and family ties encouraged people to buy. The poster's pairing of a town's name with its own soldiers shows how war finance was framed as a personal, neighborly duty as well as a national one.
| Created / published | [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 66 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. War bonds & funds--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,815 × 4,716 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221525 |
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