Name/Title
'Fight or Buy Bonds' WWI poster, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1917-1918Entry/Object ID
1997.278.1Description
ACC. NO. 97.278.1
SUBJECT CATEGORY: WW-I
DATE OR PERIOD: 1917-18
OBJECT: POSTER
DESCRIPTION:
LITHOGRAPHIC POSTER DEPICTING MISS LIBERTY ON THE BATTLEFIELD, WITH AMERICAN TROOPS. BOLD-PRINTED CAPTION IN RED- AND BLUE-COLORED TYPE, "FIGHT OR BUY BONDS."
SIZE: L 30" X W 20"
HISTORY OF OBJECT:
NOTE:
WW-I BOND POSTERS, WITH ART WORK BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY, DATED 1917.
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL IN A COLLECTION OF POSTERS PRESENTED TO THE ALAMEDA HISTORICAL MUSEUM PRIOR TO 1971 AND HERETOFORE NOT CATALOGED. NO RECORD OF EARLY DOCUMENTATION ON HAND!
ACQUIRED FROM:
MS HELEN NORTON (ALAMEDA TEACHER)
1959
DATE DOCUMENTED: JUNE 14, 1997