They serve France--How can I serve Canada? Buy Victory Bonds – Vintage Print
![They serve France--How can I serve Canada? Buy Victory Bonds, [S.l. : s.n., 1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/db/db9f37ee20bf-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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A window into the past: They serve France--How can I serve Canada? Buy Victory Bonds, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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They serve France--How can I serve Canada? Buy Victory Bonds
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A woman guiding a plow across a French field sets this poster apart from the many wartime appeals built around soldiers or ships. Its caption turns her example into a question for Canadian viewers: if women in France could keep the land working, how could they serve Canada? The lithograph was adapted from a Brown Bros. photograph, and the record credits the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation as sponsor, a reminder of how closely the Allied governments shared wartime messaging. Posters like this one asked civilians to buy Victory Bonds, raising money for the war through home-front saving and labor.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n., 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 90 x 61 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Canadian 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Adapted from photo by Brown Bros. No. W.P. 7. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Canada. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Women--Economic & social conditions--France--1910-1920. Plowing--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,969 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223892 |
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