If you can't enlist, invest - Buy a Liberty Bond - Defend your country with your dollars / Winsor McCay. – Vintage Print
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(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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If you can't enlist, invest - Buy a Liberty Bond - Defend your country with your dollars / Winsor McCay.
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Winsor McCay, the cartoonist known for *Little Nemo in Slumberland* and the animated film *Gertie the Dinosaur*, drew this lithograph for the Liberty Loan campaign. Its slogan tells citizens who cannot enlist that they can still serve by lending money. The United States paid for much of its war effort through Liberty Bonds, first sold in 1917, and posters like this one urged ordinary people to lend their savings to the government. Printed in color for the New York American, it shows how illustrators turned fundraising into a patriotic duty.
| Created / published | [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 107 x 70 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Copyright Star Co., New York American. No. 37. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,061 × 5,000 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223193 |
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