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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds
Frederick Strothmann (1872-1958) · Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 1918
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 colour poster Frederick Strothmann drew for the Liberty Loan of 1918, from the National Archives copy on Wikimedia Commons; the Library of Congress holds the same design (LCCN 94505100).
Why it matters
Liberty bonds paid for the American war, and for many citizens a bond was the first security they ever owned. Strothmann illustrated magazines and books and drew political cartoons. The bond posters of 1918 drew the German soldier as a brute, and the Atlas hangs this one as the history of that image.
What to notice
The enemy drawn as caricature, the face the war bond posters gave Germany in 1918, over the plain instruction of the title.
The face a loan drive gave the enemy.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Frederick Strothmann (1872-1958)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Remember Belgium
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 1918
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (per the file name), via Wikimedia Commons
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: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-US, PD-US/en). Provenance is thin: the file was extracted from an earlier en.wikipedia upload and credits the National Archives only in its name. The Library of Congress holds the same design (LCCN 94505100) at 4801x6000, but its collection-feed record carries no rights advisory; re-read https://www.loc.gov/item/94505100/?fo=json&at=item and prefer the LoC master if it clears. Anti-German caricature, not a hate symbol: kept ACCEPT, flagged for the operator alongside Hopps's Destroy This Mad Brute already on the walls.
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