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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
Keep These Off the U.S.A.: Buy More Liberty Bonds
John Warner Norton (1876-1934) · Fourth Liberty Loan, sheet No. 5 B, 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 lithograph John Warner Norton drew for the Fourth Liberty Loan of 1918, printed by the Strobridge Litho. Co. of Cincinnati, 102 by 77 cm on the sheet, No. 5 B.
Why it matters
The war never reached American soil, and this sheet imagines that it might. The Library's caption counts it among the Fourth Liberty Loan posters that helped raise some seven billion dollars.
What to notice
Blood-drenched boots bearing the German imperial eagle, the Reichsadler, seen at ground level, a simple composition that fuses with the title.
Two boots, one step from the shore.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- John Warner Norton (1876-1934)
- Printer / house
- The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Remember Belgium
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Fourth Liberty Loan, sheet No. 5 B, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002722447 · POS - US .N673, no. 1 (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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