Description

PUBLICATION DETAILS: Near the bottom:  Buy U.S. Government Bonds, 3rd. Liberty Loan. Lower right: Heywood Strasser & Voight Litho. Co. N.Y. Lower left: 6 – A. Image 19”w x 28”h. Colored lithograph. The artist was Griswold Tyng; Publicity Bureau, United States Department of the Treasury.

BACKGROUND: A Liberty Bond was a war bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I. On April, 1918 the Third Liberty Loan offered $3 billion in bonds at 4.5 percent interest.

DESCRIPTION: The poster shows an immigrant man in the foreground with his cap in his hand.  Four lesser developed persons are in the background, presumably two are his wife and son.  The American flag waves behind them, and in the distance a ship is sketched.

TYNG: Griswold Tyng was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1883. He graduated from the Massachusetts School of Art. During the First and Second World Wars, Tyng was an official United States Army artist. He died in 1960.

CONDITION: Corners damaged from pins used to hang the poster. Lower left margin chipped into neatline. Upper left margin is chipped through the neatline. Numerous horizontal fold lines.

Z12-002.