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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
Uncle Sam Is Worth $225,000,000,000: A Liberty Bond Is His Promise to Pay
Liberty Loan of 1917, United States Treasury, 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 Liberty Loan of 1917, 50 by 35 cm.
Why it matters
The sheet answers the buyer's worry about safety with a figure: the bond is a promise from a country the poster values at 225 billion dollars.
What to notice
The insignia of the Liberty Loan of 1917, the Statue of Liberty with the motto Get behind the government.
A nation's balance sheet, offered as security.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan of 1917, United States Treasury, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652859 · POS - WWI - US, no. 232 (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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