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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department (War Savings Stamps); Herbert Andrew Paus (artist)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- 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
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- 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.
