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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
If You Can't Enlist, Invest! Buy a Liberty Bond
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 lithograph by an unidentified artist for the Liberty Loan of 1917, 72 by 51 cm, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
The slogan gave the man who could not enlist his part in the war: a bond. The Straight Collection holds a second sheet under the same slogan, with the Statue of Liberty.
What to notice
Uncle Sam, armed with rifle and bayonet, holds out a Liberty Bond.
A rifle and a bond, offered in one gesture.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700437 · POS - WWI - US, no. 395 (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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