Hun or home? Buy more Liberty Bonds / Raleigh. – Vintage Wall Art
![Hun or home? Buy more Liberty Bonds / Raleigh., Chicago : Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., [1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c1/c133ccb4d7e7-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 Hun or home? Buy more Liberty Bonds / Raleigh., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Its headline asks a blunt question, "Hun or home?", and the poster ties the purchase of Liberty Bonds to the safety of American families. Edwards & Deutsch, a Chicago lithography firm, printed it in 1918, when the federal government was relying on bond drives to help pay for the country's part in World War I. "Hun" was the Allied slur for German soldiers, and posters like this one cast the war as a direct threat to mothers and children at home. Liberty Bond campaigns leaned on emotional appeals as much as on patriotism, and this design shows how far that messaging could go.
| Created / published | Chicago : Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 75 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 9-B. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Mothers & children--1910-1920. Threats--1910-1920. Soldiers--German--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,007 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223584 |
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