Souscrivez agrave lEmprunt de la Libeacuteration – Antique 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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A window into the past: Souscrivez agrave lEmprunt de la Libeacuteration, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Souscrivez agrave lEmprunt de la Libeacuteration
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What sets this poster apart is its pairing of Alsatian women with French soldiers and the tricolor, a reference to Alsace, which Germany had held since 1871. Issued in 1918, the Emprunt de la Libération was a French war bond campaign that asked citizens to lend money to the state in the final months of the First World War. Henri Royer signed the lithograph, and three related versions of the design exist, differing slightly in size and in the text along the bottom border. Posters like this one used patriotic imagery to make buying bonds feel like a civic duty.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 80 x 60 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Subscribe to the Liberation Loan. Signed: Henri Royer. Three other issues: POS - Fr .R69 no. 2 (with text on bottom border 81 x 60 cm.) POS - Fr .R69 no. 2a (81 x 61 cm.) POS - Fr .R69 no. 2b (80 x 60 cm.). Woodward Lothrop donor. Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1918. Item is no. 73 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AAR · Preissig Vojtech artist. |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Military personnel--French. Women--France--Alsace--1910-1920. Flags--French--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,815 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 945_Souscrivez_agrave_lEmpr_1918 |
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