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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
Shall We Be More Tender with Our Dollars Than with the Lives of Our Sons?
Second Liberty Loan of 1917, United States Treasury, sheet No. 4, 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 unidentified artist for the Second Liberty Loan of 1917, 75 by 50 cm, sheet No. 4.
Why it matters
The question is W. G. McAdoo's, Secretary of the Treasury, and the sheet weighs a family's money against a family's son.
What to notice
A soldier with a flag and a sailor with a sign that reads We depend on you.
A son's life, set against a bond.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Second Liberty Loan of 1917, United States Treasury, sheet No. 4, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652890 · POS - WWI - US, no. 238 (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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