Prints, advertising; Image of a wartime attack on New York City depicting the ruins of the Statue of Liberty in the foreground, with Lady Liberty's head in the rubble on the shore of the New York Harbor below; with submarine visible in the water and airplanes in formation in the air, amid an orange backdrop of fire and smoke; the poster promotes the United States' fourth Liberty Loan campaign of World War I that launched in September 1918. Date based on year of the fourth Liberty Loan campaign. "Ioseph [sic] Pennell Del."--text, bottom left of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; image 101.12 x 72.23 cm (39 13/16 x 28 7/16 in.) ; overall 102.08 x 75.57 cm (40 3/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
Air warfare--Pictorial works Debts, Public--United States Liberty bonds Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--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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