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"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons" WG McAdoo secretary of the treasury : Buy a United States Government bond of the 2nd liberty loan of 1917

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Title: "Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons" WG McAdoo secretary of the treasury : Buy a United States Government bond of the 2nd liberty loan of 1917
Creator: Groesbeck, Dan Sayre, 1878-1950, artist
Illinois Litho. Co., printer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Prints, advertising; Image of Uncle Sam standing in the foreground and holding his hand out, while troops of soldiers with guns and the American flag march in rows in the middle ground, and the Statue of Liberty, ships, and flying airplanes can be seen in the distance; the poster promotes the United States' second Liberty Loan campaign of World War I that launched in October 1917 and includes the printed signature of Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo.
Date based on year in item title. "Dan Sayre Groesbeck"--text, artist's signature in stone, lower left of image. "No. 1"--text, bottom left margin. "Illinois Litho. Co. Chicago"--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 75.57 x 50.17 cm (29 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priWWI_S_131
414753
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23602
Subject: McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941
Debts, Public--United States
Liberty bonds
Soldiers--Pictorial works
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works
Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works
World War, 1914-1918--Finance--United States
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
War posters--American--1910-1920. (gmgpc)
Source: Huntington Collection
World War I
Your Country Calls
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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