Content note: A drawing of a girl holding a baby beside a spiked-helmet figure bending over a fallen person, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Hun or Home? Buy More Liberty Bonds
A charcoal-style drawing shows a girl holding a baby, standing beside a spiked-helmet figure bending over a fallen person. The headline poses the choice 'Hun or Home?' and asks viewers to buy more Liberty Bonds. The image pairs the epithet 'Hun' with a threatened household to make purchase the answer to the question.
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-226.
Text on the object
HUN OR HOME? BUY MORE LIBERTY BONDS [signature, illegible]
