Poster, 'Must children die and mothers plead in vain?'

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Title

Poster, 'Must children die and mothers plead in vain?'

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Loans and motherhood This famous First World War loan poster was created by the United States Treasury Department to urge the American public to buy war bonds. War bonds were debt securities issued by various governments to finance their military operations and other expenses during the First and Second World Wars. The wider campaign for American Liberty bonds combined exhortations for purchase with appeals to patriotism and conscience, especially in those retail bonds specifically marketed t...

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Format

Image

Date created

September 1918

Creator

Henry Raleigh / Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation / United States Treasury Department

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/894200

Related subjects

Women / Children / War / World War, 1914-1918 / ink / paper / political posters / colour lithography / United States

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