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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
The Liberty Loan Is the Cash Register of Patriotism
Committee of Public Safety, Department of Finance, South Penn Square, Philadelphia, 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 lithograph by an unnamed artist, issued by the Department of Finance of the Committee of Public Safety in Philadelphia for the Liberty Loan of 1917, 49 by 75 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
Philadelphia's committee, at South Penn Square, put the shopkeeper's machine to the loan's work, and the second line asks whether Uncle Sam has rung up the reader's bond purchase yet.
What to notice
Uncle Sam at a cash register, the bond counted like a sale.
Patriotism, rung up at the counter.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Committee of Public Safety, Department of Finance, South Penn Square, Philadelphia, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652887 · POS - WWI - US, no. 241 (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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