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title: Remember Your First Thrill of American Liberty
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-your-first-thrill-of-american-liberty-1917/
description: Immigrant families with bundles and children crowd the deck of a ship and look toward the Statue of Liberty, under the words 'Remember your first thrill
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# Remember Your First Thrill of American Liberty

Immigrant families with bundles and children crowd the deck of a ship and look toward the Statue of Liberty, under the words 'Remember your first thrill of American Liberty'. The caption below turns that memory into an instruction, 'Your duty - Buy United States Government Bonds', tied to the Second Liberty Loan of 1917, and the poster relies on the statue and the word 'Liberty' rather than on any terms of the loan.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Remember Your First Thrill of
AMERICAN LIBERTY

YOUR DUTY - Buy
United States Government Bonds
2nd Liberty Loan of 1917

No 9
SACKETT & WILHELMS CORP. N.Y.
```

'No 9' at lower left and the printer's imprint at lower right are small print.

[← "Remember, They Are Giving Their Lives!"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-they-are-giving-their-lives-1917-1919/) [Ring It Again: Buy a United States Government Bond of the Second Liberty Loan of 1917 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ring-it-again-second-liberty-loan-1917/)

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