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The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
Have You Bought Your Liberty Bond?, Poster by Vojtěch Preissig, 1918
Vojtěch Preissig (1873-1944) · Liberty Loan poster, Wentworth Institute, 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 1918 colour lithograph poster, 96 by 64 cm, asking: have you bought your Liberty Bond? It carries the imprint WI ; P&GA.
Why it matters
Vojtěch Preissig, a Czech printmaker, taught at the School of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Wentworth Institute in Boston, and the school printed war posters in its own shop.
What to notice
The imprint in the corner names the school where it was printed.
A war loan sold by a teacher and his class.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Vojtěch Preissig (1873-1944)
- Printer / house
- School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Wentworth Institute, Boston
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan poster, Wentworth Institute, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002719426
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 2026-11-01.
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