Wear your button / Ketterlinus, Phila. – Vintage Wall Art
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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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A window into the past: Wear your button / Ketterlinus, Phila., 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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Wear your button / Ketterlinus, Phila.
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Printed by the Ketterlinus firm of Philadelphia in 1917, this color lithograph asks viewers to do something as small as wearing a button, and it makes that gesture its whole message. It belongs to the wartime effort to sell government bonds, when buyers of Liberty Loan issues were given lapel buttons as visible proof of their support. Wearing one turned a private financial choice into a public statement that others could see. The poster also draws on the victory sign, a motif that appears often in home-front designs of these years.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 51 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. Buttons (Information artifacts)--1910-1920. Victory sign--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,713 × 4,588 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221521 |
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