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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 Allies, 1914–1918
Podpisyvaites' na Zaem Svobody
Aleksei Kravchenko (1889-1940) · Zaem Svobody, the Liberty Loan of the Provisional Government, 1917, 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 Aleksei Kravchenko drew for the Liberty Loan of 1917, printed by the Tovarishchestvo A. A. Levenson in Moscow, 105 by 77 cm, from the Russian State Library.
Why it matters
Subscribe to the Liberty Loan: the Provisional Government raised the loan in 1917, between the February and October revolutions. The library's catalogue dates the sheet [1916]; the loan it names fixes it to 1917.
What to notice
The word svobody, of liberty, carries the title: the name the Provisional Government gave its loan.
Freedom, financed by subscription.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Aleksei Kravchenko (1889-1940)
- Printer / house
- Tovarishchestvo A. A. Levenson, Moscow
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Zaem Svobody, the Liberty Loan of the Provisional Government, 1917, 1917
- Source
- 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-RusEmpire, PD-RusEmpire/en). Dated 1917: the Russian State Library catalogue reads [1916], but the Liberty Loan the sheet names was the Provisional Government's loan of 1917.
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