Poster, 'Serve Your Country By Saving Money'

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Title

Poster, 'Serve Your Country By Saving Money'

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Buy war savings stamps! This First World War poster was created by the United States Government to advertise the sale of Treasury Department war saving stamps to help fund the country's participation in the war. These stamps were mainly aimed at citizens. The poster depicts a small black and white lithograph image of Uncle Sam handing over saving stamps through a window to a man in a queue in exchange for money. Text dominates the majority of the poster, asking the viewer to 'Invest in U.S. G...

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Format

Image

Date created

1918

Creator

Reinhold Palenske / Federal Government of the United States

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1081459

Related subjects

War / World War, 1914-1918 / fund raising / ink / paper / strawboard / political posters / colour lithography / War bonds & funds / United States

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