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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
V: The Victory Liberty Loan Industrial Honor Emblem
Victory Liberty Loan, United States Treasury Department, 1919
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 on textile by an unidentified artist for the Victory Liberty Loan of 1919, printed by the Sweeney Litho. Co. of New York, 88 by 75 cm, a banner made with grommets in its upper corners for hanging.
Why it matters
The Treasury awarded this emblem to industry in the Victory Liberty Loan of 1919, the fifth of the war loans, and it was made in cloth to be flown.
What to notice
A large blue V within a wide red border, with grommets at the upper corners.
A single letter, flown for the last loan.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Printer / house
- Sweeney Litho. Co., New York
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Victory Liberty Loan, United States Treasury Department, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652850 · POS - WWI - US, no. 309 (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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