Lend as they fight: Buy more liberty bonds

Place North & Central America: United States of America
Accession Number ARTV00823
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 73.8 x 48 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description chromolithograph on paper
Maker Riesenberg, Sidney H
United States Government
Unknown
Place made United States of America
Date made c.1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

United States First World War poster issued to promote the sale of Liberty Bonds. The image fills the whole and features two soldiers fighting at the front. Positioned in the foreground the first soldier is wounded with a bandaged head. He is firing a pistol leaning up against the second soldier who is standing protectively behind him firing his rifle into the lower right. Behind them is a bright yellow and orange sky with white smoke and a line of barbed wire. The title positioned top and bottom printed in blue and pale blue ink outlined with black.

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