Over the top for you - Buy U.S. gov't bonds, Third Liberty Loan / Sidney H. Riesenberg. – Historic Reproduction
![Over the top for you - Buy U.S. gov't bonds, Third Liberty Loan / Sidney H. Riesenberg., Phila[delphia] : Ketterlinus, [1918] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f9/f99e787e38e2-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: Over the top for you - Buy U.S. gov't bonds, Third Liberty Loan / Sidney H. Riesenberg., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Over the top for you - Buy U.S. gov't bonds, Third Liberty Loan / Sidney H. Riesenberg.
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Over the top" was trench slang for the moment soldiers climbed out of their trenches to attack, and this 1918 lithograph uses the phrase to connect the fighting in France with the home front, where civilians were asked to finance the war. Ketterlinus printed the poster in Philadelphia for the Third Liberty Loan drive of spring 1918, which urged Americans to buy government bonds. The designer named in its title, Sidney H. Riesenberg, produced commercial and war-era poster work. Its pairing of a soldier with the American flag shows how the government presented bond purchases as direct support for the men overseas.
| Created / published | Phila[delphia] : Ketterlinus, [1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 76 x 50 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | No. 1-A. Title from item. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. War bonds & funds--1910-1920. Soldiers--1910-1920. Flags--American--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,025 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223155 |
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