Content note: A US infantryman stands with a bayonet over a fallen German soldier, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Come On! Buy More Liberty Bonds
A helmeted American infantryman stands over a fallen German soldier, bayonet levelled at the viewer, under the imperative 'Come On!' and the line 'buy more Liberty Bonds'. The poster attaches the soldier's combat posture and the defeated enemy to the act of lending money to the government, so that purchase is framed as the next step in the same fight.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department (Liberty Loan campaign)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Treasury Department (Liberty Loan campaign). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-206.
Text on the object
Come On! buy more LIBERTY BONDS WALTER WHITEHEAD 1918
'Walter Whitehead 1918' is the artist's signature and date in the lower right.
