--- title: All About Liberty Bonds url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-about-liberty-bonds-1917/ description: An all-text poster in a red and blue border answers six questions (what, why, how, where and when to buy Liberty Bonds) with payment dates. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. All About Liberty Bonds [![All About Liberty Bonds, 1917 US poster: An all-text poster in a red and blue border answers six questions](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-about-liberty-bonds-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-about-liberty-bonds-1917.jpg) # All About Liberty Bonds An all-text poster in a red and blue border answers six questions (what, why, how, where and when to buy Liberty Bonds) with payment dates, coupon values and the claim that the bonds are 'as safe as the United States'. It closes by contrasting soldiers who 'give their lives' with civilians asked only to 'lend your money'. It presents only the favourable terms and the moral contrast. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ALL ABOUT LIBERTY BONDS WHAT Are They? Liberty Bonds are engraved certificates bearing the guarantee of the Government and People of the United States to repay in gold the full amount loaned, with interest. Liberty Bonds are as safe as the United States. WHY Should I Buy Them? Because we are at war. Because we must have dollars as well as men in the fight for freedom. Because they are the safest investment in the world today. Each $100 bond has 60 coupons attached. You can cut off one of these every six months and get $1.75 in cash at any bank, without expense. HOW Can I Buy Them? For each $50 subscribed pay: $1 down $9 on June 28, 1917 $10 on July 30, 1917 $15 on August 15, 1917 $15 on August 30, 1917 Pay in cash if you prefer. You don't need a bank account to buy a Liberty Bond. WHERE Can I Buy Them? At any Bank, Trust Company, Bond House, Post Office, Department Store, Express Company, etc. Every dollar you pay goes to the Government. No commissions are charged to you or paid to anyone. WHEN Shall I Buy Them? Buy them NOW. Subscriptions close June 15, 1917. Our soldiers and sailors will give their lives. You are asked only to lend your money. If you can't fight, your money can. A bond may save a life. A bond will help to end the war. Buy Your Bonds Today ``` In the printed poster the words 'give', 'lend' and 'you' are underlined; layout is two columns (question left, answer right). [← The Accusing Finger of Conscience](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/accusing-finger-of-conscience-save-fats-1917/) [All Together! Enlist in the Navy →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-together-enlist-in-the-navy-1917/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.