Bring in your $50, and take home your bond! Third issue Liberty Bonds paying 4 1/4 per cent. – Historic Reproduction
![Bring in your $50, and take home your bond! Third issue Liberty Bonds paying 4 1/4 per cent., [1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cd/cd6d7ac33814-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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Bring in your $50, and take home your bond! Third issue Liberty Bonds paying 4 1/4 per cent. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bring in your $50, and take home your bond! Third issue Liberty Bonds paying 4 1/4 per cent.
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A cigar store chain is the unusual sponsor here: the United Cigar Stores Company used this 1918 lithograph to promise that a $50 contribution would bring a bond home, with the Statue of Liberty as its emblem. The third Liberty Loan, sold by the U.S. Treasury in spring 1918 to help pay for American participation in World War I, offered bonds at 4 1/4 percent interest. Retailers, banks and employers took part in these drives, and the poster shows how commercial storefronts became places to buy war bonds. Its mix of patriotic symbolism and everyday shopping makes it a useful example of home-front fundraising.
| Created / published | [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 77 x 58 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | United Cigar Stores Company. United Cigars. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. Smoking--1910-1920. Cigars--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,777 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 575_Bring_in_your_50_and_ta_1918 |
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