Creacutedit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France – Historic Reproduction
(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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Creacutedit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Creacutedit Lyonnais. Emprunt National 1920. Terre de France
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A plowman works the earth beside rows of crosses, a pairing that gives the poster its message: the soil of France, scarred by the war, was being brought back under cultivation. Abel Faivre, a well-known French caricaturist and poster designer, made the image for the Crédit Lyonnais bank to promote the 1920 National Loan, a government bond drive meant to help fund postwar reconstruction. Posters like this one used the countryside as a symbol of national recovery, asking citizens to invest in the country's future as they had once supported its defense.
| Created / published | 1920 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 158 x 117 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Creacutedit Lyonnais. The 1920 National Loan. French soil. Signed: Abel Faivre. Another issue: POS - Fr .F35 no. 1a (same image 81 x 120 cm.). Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1920. Item is no. 28 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR · Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. sponsor. |
| Subjects | Ploughing--1910-1920. Crosses--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,781 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 662_Creacutedit_Lyonnais_Em_1920 |
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