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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
This Is Your War: Help Win It by Subscribing to the Liberty Loan
Frank Godwin (1889-1959) · Liberty Loan Committee, 108 South 4th Street, 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 lithograph Frank Godwin drew for the Liberty Loan of 1917, 25 by 44 cm, a sheet wider than it is tall, from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Why it matters
Liberty bonds paid for the American war, and this sheet sold them with fear of what it labels Prussianism. Readers were sent to their bank or to the Liberty Loan Committee at 108 South 4th Street.
What to notice
A family looking in fear at a ghoulish silhouette of a soldier labelled Prussianism.
A shadow with a name, cast over a family.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Frank Godwin (1889-1959)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans · Remember Belgium
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan Committee, 108 South 4th Street, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2001700130 · POS - WWI - US, no. 374 (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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