The $3,000,000,000 punch / Jo Davidson. – 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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A window into the past: The $3,000,000,000 punch / Jo Davidson., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The $3,000,000,000 punch / Jo Davidson.
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Uncle Sam throws a punch at the Kaiser in this 1917 lithograph, and the blow is a bond: the fist is wrapped in a coat labeled "Liberty Bond." Sculptor Jo Davidson designed the poster for the Liberty Loan Committee, which sold war bonds to help pay for the United States' entry into World War I that April. The dollar figure in the title points to the scale of borrowing the government needed. The image turns a financial appeal into a boxing match, a pitch that asked ordinary Americans to fight the war with their savings.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph ; 62 x 47 cm. |
| Genre | New York. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection." |
| Notes | Poster showing Uncle Sam in coat labelled Liberty Bond" punching the Kaiser. Prepared by Liberty Loan Committee |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1910-1920. Fighting--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,590 × 4,448 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 887_The_3000000000_punch_1917 |
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