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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
Crush the Prussian: Buy a Bond, 3rd Liberty Loan
Third 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 lithograph by an unnamed artist, made for the Third Liberty Loan of 1918, 106 by 72 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The Third Liberty Loan opened in April 1918, and the headline names the enemy by his kingdom, Prussia.
What to notice
A battle scene with trenches, a tank and an explosion.
A bond, thrown in with the barrage.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Third Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700114 · POS - WWI - US, no. 360 (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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