Buy War Bonds – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Buy War Bonds. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A photographic copy of a 1942 poster, this print reproduces a call to buy war bonds, with Uncle Sam as the figure asking Americans to lend money to the war effort. Posters like this were a major part of the home-front campaign during World War II, when the federal government sold bonds to help finance the war and to draw savings away from consumer spending. Uncle Sam, already familiar from World War I recruiting art, gave the appeal a face that viewers would recognize at once. The caption details for this record have not been verified, so the poster's designer and printing history should be confirmed against the original source.
| Created / published | 1942 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint of poster. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: War Bonds; Poster; WWII; Uncle Sam. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,240 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155439 |
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