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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
Wake Up Lancaster! Your Sons Are Fighting for You: Buy Liberty Bonds
C. W. Drepperd · Liberty Loan, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 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 C. W. Drepperd drew for the Liberty Loan in Lancaster in 1918, 66 by 51 cm.
Why it matters
Drepperd drew a second Lancaster sheet for the loan, and this one calls the town by name: your sons are fighting for you, sacrifice to help them win.
What to notice
A skyline in twilight, the city's own silhouette under the call to wake.
A town at dusk, woken by its own name.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- C. W. Drepperd
- Campaign
- Liberty Loans
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Liberty Loan, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1918
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 00652902 · POS - WWI - US, no. 247 (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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