Come on! Buy more Liberty Bonds / Walter Whitehead 1918. – Vintage Wall Art
(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 rare vintage poster captures Come on! Buy more Liberty Bonds / Walter Whitehead 1918. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Come on! Buy more Liberty Bonds / Walter Whitehead 1918.
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The call to "Come on!" comes from a poster sponsored by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, the agency created in 1917 to build merchant ships for the war effort. Its message links the purchase of Liberty Bonds to that shipbuilding program, which the government needed to finance heavily through bond drives. The Liberty Loan campaigns of 1917 and 1918 relied on posters like this one to reach ordinary citizens, and the color lithograph reflects the commercial art of the period. Its link between shipping and bond sales makes it a useful example of how wartime finance and industry were promoted together.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Notes | No. 8-B. Title from item. · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation sponsor. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Campaigns & battles--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 1,027 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 406_Come_on_Buy_more_Libert_1918 |
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