Remember! The Flag of Liberty
Artist
Griswold Tyng
United States
Printer
Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co.
United States
Date1918
Dimensions20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.64
DescriptionGriswold Tyng served as an official artist for the U.S. Army in both world wars. His design was one of several produced during World War I that specifically encouraged immigrants to purchase war bonds. An immigrant family in the foreground stands in front of the U.S. flag, the ship they have just arrived on visible in the background. They are urged to remember their good fortune and to therefore purchase war bonds to protect the American ideals of liberty and justice from which they have benefited. (Not long after the war, however, in 1921 and 1924, Congress passed immigration laws that severely restricted the number and “national origin” of new immigrants to the United States.) The government’s Committee on Public Information instituted four wartime Liberty Loan drives, and a fifth immediately after the Armistice. The third loan referred to here was for $3 million; it opened in April 1918 and lasted for about a month. The drives involved the greatest American advertising effort to date; posters like this one as well as streetcar ads were installed across 3,200 cities, while fliers, information sheets, and reminders were distributed by volunteers, mail-order houses, and librarians, and movie stars held rallies around the country.On View
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