Liberty Loan Poster

Posters like this were part of the US government’s massive publicity campaign to induce Americans to support the war effort through the purchase of Liberty Bonds.

Materials

"Capitalizing on American Pride and Patriotism: Funding the First World War Through the Liberty and Victory Loan Bonds, 1917-1923," by Lawrence D. Schuffman, Paper Money, January/February 2009 (PDF | 16.25 MB)
"The Liberty Loan Bond," by Lawrence D. Schuffman, Financial History, Spring 2007 (PDF | 1.11 MB)
"When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy," by William L. Silber, Financial History, Winter 2007 (PDF | 486.16 KB)

Objects and Images Related to Woodrow Wilson

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Specimen $100,000 gold note bearing the image of Woodrow Wilson. On loan from the curating section, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Bond coupons from World War I. Courtesy of the Schuffman Family.

To tax or not to tax was not the question; who and how much to tax was.

William McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury (March 1913 to December 1918)

Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury (December 1918 to February 1920)

David Houston, Secretary of the Treasury (February 1920 to March 1921)

Liberty Loan Bond, 1917. Courtesy of the Schuffman Family.

Liberty Bond storage envelope from World War I.

Liberty Loan Bond poster from WWI.