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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
The $3,000,000,000 Punch
Jo Davidson (1883-1952) · Liberty Loan Committee, 120 Broadway, New York, 1917
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A lithograph Jo Davidson drew for the Liberty Loan Committee of 120 Broadway, New York, in 1917, 62 by 47 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
Liberty bonds paid for the American war, and the title puts a price on a single blow: three billion dollars.
What to notice
Uncle Sam in a coat labelled Liberty Bond, landing a punch on the Kaiser.
Three billion dollars, thrown as one punch.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Jo Davidson (1883-1952)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan Committee, 120 Broadway, New York, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001699908 · POS - WWI - US, no. 335 (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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