Welcome home – 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: Welcome home, 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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A color lithograph printed as a supplement to the Philadelphia Public Ledger on Sunday, December 15, 1918, this poster turns the war's end into a homecoming scene, with soldiers and sailors returning to civilian life. The date sits only a month after the Armistice of November 11, 1918, when the United States began demobilizing millions of troops and many families waited anxiously for their men to come back. Newspaper supplements like this one reached large readerships, so the poster carried the nation's relief and gratitude into ordinary households. Its title, "Welcome home," speaks to the social side of the war that the subject headings point to: the reunions, the adjustments, and the hopes attached to peacetime.
| Created / published | Philadelphia : Public Ledger, 1918 December 15. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 35 x 25 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Philadelphia Public Ledger supplement, Sunday, December 15, 1918. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. Soldiers--1910-1920. Sailors--1910-1920. Homecomings--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,981 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1103_Welcome_home_1918 |
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