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
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department (Second Liberty Loan, 1917)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Diaspora or minority
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Migration, War and the military
- 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 (Second Liberty Loan, 1917). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-238.
Text on the object
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.
