You - help my boy win the war" Buy a Liberty Bond." – Historic Print
![You - help my boy win the war" Buy a Liberty Bond.", [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d5/d5102096a5fd-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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This rare vintage poster captures You - help my boy win the war" Buy a Liberty Bond." in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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You - help my boy win the war" Buy a Liberty Bond."
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Rather than showing the battlefield, this 1917 color lithograph makes its case through a mother's plea, asking the viewer to help "my boy win the war" by buying a Liberty Bond. Congress authorized the bonds in 1917 to help pay for the United States' entry into the First World War, and the Treasury sold them through a series of Liberty Loan drives that relied heavily on posters like this one. The sheet is marked "No. 6," which suggests it was part of a numbered set of designs. Its emotional pitch, tying a son in uniform to the purchase of a bond, shows how the government tried to make war financing feel personal to ordinary households.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 28 x 53 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 6. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Mothers & children--United States--1910-1920. Soldiers--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,702 × 3,781 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221505 |
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