Save Your Child from Autocracy and Poverty: Buy War Savings Stamps

A small naked child stands with a hand on his hip in front of the Statue of Liberty's green copper arm and torch, which shines rays behind the words 'Save your child from autocracy and poverty.' The tell of transfer is the torch: Liberty's arm does the protecting in the picture, so the symbol's authority is attached to a Treasury savings stamp.

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: U.S. Treasury Department (War Savings Stamps); Herbert Andrew Paus (artist)
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, War and the military
Event: World War I
Techniques: Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
Rights: Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931)
Paus, Herbert Andrew, 1880-1946, artist. 1918. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-3171.

Text on the object

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

Save your Child
from Autocracy
and Poverty

BUY

War Savings
Stamps

UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT

W.S.S.
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Herbert Paus

The artist's signature ('Herbert Paus') is printed small near the child's shoulder and is faint in this scan.