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PUBLICATION DETAILS: Third Liberty Loan Honor Roll in large red letters outlined in black. At left of flag staff: Honor Flag Third Liberty Loan Awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department. Text beneath flag: Help Our Town Win the right to fly this Flag. These are the People of Our Town who are helping to win the war by investing in Government Bonds of the Third Liberty Loan.  The empty space below the text was for use in recording participants in the program. Lower right: W.F. Powers Co. Litho, N.Y. Image 19 ½”w x 26”h on 21”w x 28”h sheet. No artist is identified.
 
BACKGROUND: Countries at war create posters that would demonize opponents; others would encourage young men to volunteer for battle. Still other posters were to cultivate a sense of national pride; this is one of those. This is a poster showing a flag with three vertical blue stripes on a white ground with a wide red border. 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.
 
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