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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
Buy United States Government War Savings Stamps: Your Money Back with Interest
William Balfour Ker · War Savings Stamps, United States Treasury, sheet No. S-11, 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 colour lithograph William Balfour Ker drew for the War Savings Stamps campaign in 1917, 77 by 102 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall, No. S-11.
Why it matters
Savings stamps let small sums be put by toward a savings bond, and the sheet promises the money back with interest from the Treasury. Ker was a declared socialist whose pictures of class and poverty were widely reproduced, and he worked for the bond and stamp drives as well.
What to notice
People of every sort lined up at a window where Uncle Sam sits under the sign W.S.S. for sale here, with a little girl waving the flag in front.
A socialist's queue, at the Treasury window.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- William Balfour Ker
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Savings Stamps, United States Treasury, sheet No. S-11, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002712000 · POS - US .K46, no. 1 (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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