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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
Make the World Safe for Democracy: Buy More Liberty Bonds
Second Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, sheet No. 2, 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 unnamed artist, made for the Second Liberty Loan of 1917, sheet No. 2, 28 by 53 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall.
Why it matters
The headline is Woodrow Wilson's war aim of April 1917, and the picture puts the loan in baseball terms.
What to notice
A hand about to pitch a ball labelled Second Liberty Loan of 1917 at Kaiser Wilhelm, with the caption Swat military autocracy.
A fastball, thrown at an emperor.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Second Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, sheet No. 2, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652357 · POS - WWI - US, no. 278 (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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