Help Our Town Win the Right to Fly This Flag: Third Liberty Loan Honor Roll
A white-and-red flag with three blue stripes fills the upper half of the sheet above a headline asking townspeople to win the right to fly it, and a line that 'the people of Our Town' are helping win the war by buying Third Liberty Loan bonds. The tell is the local-pride mechanism: community standing and a public badge are tied to every household's purchase, with 'Our Town' left blank for local overprint.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department (Third Liberty Loan)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-196.
Text on the object
Honor Flag Third Liberty Loan Awarded by the U. S. Treasury Department Registered. Help Our Town Win the right to fly this Flag THIRD LIBERTY LOAN HONOR ROLL These are the people of Our Town who are helping to win the war by investing in Government Bonds of the Third Liberty Loan THE W.F. POWERS CO. LITHO. N.Y.
