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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
Share in the Victory: Save for Your Country, Save for Yourself
Haskell Coffin (1878-1941) · War Savings Stamps, United States Treasury, sheet No. WS-A2, 1918
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 Haskell Coffin painted for the War Savings Stamps campaign of 1918, 77 by 51 cm, sheet No. WS-A2.
Why it matters
Savings stamps let small sums be put by over time toward a savings bond, and this sheet argues that they paid twice, once to the country and once to the saver. Coffin painted covers for the leading American magazines and made posters for the government.
What to notice
An allegorical woman holding both a sword and a palm branch, the war and the peace after it.
A stamp that buys the sword and the palm.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Haskell Coffin (1878-1941)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- War Savings Stamps, United States Treasury, sheet No. WS-A2, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002708927 · POS - US .C66, no. 5 (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-Layout, PD-US-expired-text, PD-old-80-expired).
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