Your forefathers died for liberty in 1776 - What will you do for it in 1917? Buy Liberty Bonds / Ickes. – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Your forefathers died for liberty in 1776 - What will you do for it in 1917? Buy Liberty Bonds / Ickes.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Under a headline that sets the dead of 1776 against the reader's choice in 1917, this lithograph turns the Revolution into a direct appeal to buy war bonds. Its Minuteman, the colonial militiaman who answered the call at Lexington and Concord, stands in for the civic duty the poster asks of its viewers. Printed in color by the Ohio Litho. Co. of Toledo, the sheet belongs to the Liberty Loan campaigns the Treasury ran after the United States entered the First World War in April 1917. The government needed large sums from ordinary citizens to finance the war, and posters like this one carried that request into shops, post offices and public spaces.
| Created / published | Toledo : The Ohio Litho. Co., 1917. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 104 x 69 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Minutemen (Militia)--1910-1920. War bonds & funds--United States--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,625 × 4,555 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222807 |
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