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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
Every Liberty Bond Is a Shot at a U-Boat: Buy a Liberty Bond
Second Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 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 poster by an unidentified artist for the Second Liberty Loan of 1917, sheet 28 by 53 cm.
Why it matters
The Second Liberty Loan was sold in the autumn of 1917, and this sheet turned each bond into a round of ammunition. The Library of Congress showed it at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington in 2017.
What to notice
A shell marked Second Liberty Loan, fired toward a German submarine, under the order to fire your shot today.
A bond, loaded and aimed at the sea.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Second Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 93502269 · POS - WWI - US, no. 279 (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-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-70-1923).
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