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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
Our Daddy Is Fighting at the Front for You: Back Him Up
Second Liberty Loan, United States Treasury, sheet No. 6, 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. 6, 76 by 51 cm.
Why it matters
The children speak for an absent father and ask for a United States Government bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917.
What to notice
A little boy and girl holding an American flag.
A father at the front, argued by his children.
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. 6, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709057 · POS - US .D484, 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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