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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 · The Home Front
For Liberty and Peace on Earth: Give War Bonds
Lyman Simpson · U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division, 1941–1945
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 poster Lyman Simpson made for the War Finance Division of the U.S. Treasury Department, Official U.S. Treasury Poster WFD 965-A, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-800 and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The Treasury ran eight War Loan Drives between 1941 and 1946, and this sheet borrows the Christmas words peace on earth and asks for bonds as gifts.
What to notice
The verb is give, where most bond posters say buy, and the imprint names the poster WFD 965-A.
A bond, wrapped as a present.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Lyman Simpson
- Campaign
- War Bonds
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514290, local id 44-PA-800), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514290 · 44-PA-800
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 514290, 44-PA-800): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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