Place | North & Central America: United States of America |
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Accession Number | ARTV00012 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 75.5 x 51.3 cm |
Object type | Poster |
Physical description | chromolithograph on paper |
Maker |
Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy Robert Gair company [S.L.]: AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, 1919 (NEW YORK : ROBERT GAIR COMPANY) |
Place made | United States of America: New York, United States of America: New York |
Date made | 1919 |
Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
To the folks back home
This poster was designed by American Expeditionary Forces in Germany for Victory Liberty Loans. Many countries involved in the war realised that they would need more funds to resource their campaigns, so many developed war loan programs. These programs encouraged the population to purchase government war bonds which would be repaid with interest, and assist the war effort. These loan subscriptions have been estimated to have covered 60 percent or more of the cost of the war in Germany.. War loan posters were produced in great volume during the First World War. They used patriotism combined with guilt to inspire the populace to financially back the war. Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge (1889-1975) was an American painter, designer and illustrator. Always a keen adventurer, he joined the French army as an ambulance driver at the outbreak of the First World War. America's involvement in the war saw him transferred to the American infantry where oversaw the illustration of the Stars and Stripes newspaper. This role saw him travel freely over the battlefields; he was deeply effected by the horrors of war. On 6 June, 1977, Baldridge committed suicide with his American army-issued pistol from World War I.
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