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Print
Poster: For Home and Country - Victory Liberty Loan
Alfred Everitt Orr, 1886 -
Orr, Alfred Everitt
United States
1886
Male
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
Print
During five Liberty Loan campaigns, Americans bought twenty billion dollars in bonds to support the war. The final campaign, the Victory Liberty Loan, began after the war ended. The government still needed to pay for the travel, medical care, shelter, and sustenance for the millions of American soldiers remaining in Europe.
The reunion of this idealized, Anglo-American family illustrates the ideal outcome of the war. A healthy soldier/husband returns from the war into the loving arms of his wife and son. The German helmet that hangs from the soldier's neck, a common war trophy, strikes a somewhat brutal and discordant note to our modern eyes.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
Printed by American Lithographic Co., New York.
1973.175
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Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
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