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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Sunrise or Sunset: Own a Liberty Bond
Eugenie De Land (born 1872) · Liberty Loan of 1917, 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 watercolour design drawing Eugenie De Land made for a Liberty Bond poster in 1917, 100 by 76 cm.
Why it matters
De Land was one of the few women designing posters during the war; she studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute and taught for thirty-five years, at the Corcoran School of Art and McKinley High School in Washington, before retiring in 1942. The caption explains the bond to the buyer: a U.S. government bond that bears interest and is readily saleable.
What to notice
The Statue of Liberty against an evening sky lit as the American flag; the Library's caption reads it as the viewer's choice, whether the sun rises or sets.
A flag at dusk, waiting on a signature.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Eugenie De Land (born 1872)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan of 1917, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001695176 · POS - US .D45, no. 1a
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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