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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
Joan of Arc Saved France: Women of America, Save Your Country
Haskell Coffin (1878-1941) · War Savings Stamps, 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 poster Haskell Coffin painted for the War Savings Stamps campaign of 1918, from the copy the Digital Public Library of America holds; the Library of Congress has the same design (LCCN 2002708944) in a smaller scan.
Why it matters
Savings stamps let small sums be put by, a few cents at a time, toward a bond, and this sheet sold them to women by name. Coffin painted covers for the leading American magazines and made posters for the government.
What to notice
Joan of Arc, the saint of France, set above an appeal to the women of America: the whole title reads as one argument, from one country's saviour to another country's women.
A saint from 1429, recruited for 1918.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Haskell Coffin (1878-1941)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Women at War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Savings Stamps, United States Treasury, 1918
- Source
- DPLA partner collection, via Wikimedia Commons
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: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-US, PD-US-expired-text).
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