Every Liberty Bond is a shot at a U boat--Fire your shot today--Buy a Liberty Bond – Vintage Wall Art
![Every Liberty Bond is a shot at a U boat--Fire your shot today--Buy a Liberty Bond, [1917?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c0/c085f14884ad-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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A window into the past: Every Liberty Bond is a shot at a U boat--Fire your shot today--Buy a Liberty Bond, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Every Liberty Bond is a shot at a U boat--Fire your shot today--Buy a Liberty Bond
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Every bond on this poster is cast as a "shot" at a German U-boat, a pointed way of tying a personal financial decision to the naval fight in the Atlantic. Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 had sunk Allied and neutral merchant ships, and the United States entered the war that April. The Liberty Loans, the government bonds sold to finance the war effort, depended on large numbers of ordinary buyers, so posters like this one addressed citizens directly. The record dates the print to about 1917, which places it during the first Liberty Loan drive.
| Created / published | [1917?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 28 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,453 × 3,587 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221490 |
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