--- title: 'That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth: Buy Liberty Bonds' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/that-liberty-shall-not-perish-1918/ description: Lower Manhattan burns under an orange sky as aircraft fly overhead and a submarine crosses the harbour; the Statue of Liberty stands headless and broken… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth: Buy Liberty Bonds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/that-liberty-shall-not-perish-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/that-liberty-shall-not-perish-1918.jpg) # That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth: Buy Liberty Bonds Lower Manhattan burns under an orange sky as aircraft fly overhead and a submarine crosses the harbour; the Statue of Liberty stands headless and broken, her head lying in the water at her base. The fear-appeal tell is the imagined catastrophe paired with one remedy, bonds; the transfer tell is the borrowed line from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address set over the national monument. - **Date:** 1918 - **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi) - **Made by:** U.S. Treasury Department (Fourth Liberty Loan); Joseph Pennell (artist) - **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america) - **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Wilson Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=wilson-administration) - **Leader:** [Woodrow Wilson](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=woodrow-wilson) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance) - **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i) - **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2002712077/), retrieved September 27, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931) Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926, artist. 1918. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-18343. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` JOSEPH PENNELL DEL. THAT LIBERTY SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH BUY LIBERTY BONDS FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN 2-B KETTERLINUS PHILA. 1918 ``` "JOSEPH PENNELL DEL." (delineavit, "drew this") is the artist's small printed credit in the lower left of the illustration. "2-B" (edition/plate number) and "KETTERLINUS PHILA. 1918" (the Philadelphia printer named in this entry's own notes) are tiny printed lines along the very bottom edge, read with reduced confidence given their size. [← Tell That to the Marines!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tell-that-to-the-marines-1918/) [Державний кредитовий білет, 100 гривень (State Credit Note, 100 Hryven; legend 'Ukrainian People's Republic', 1918) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unr-100-hryven-note-1918/) ## Using the same techniques - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/) (1891 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity. - [The Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radical-programme-selling-india-st-stephens-review-1891/) (Oct 31, 1891 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating) - [En posesión de su presa (In Possession of Its Prey)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/en-posesion-de-su-presa-el-diablo-1894/) (Jun 2, 1894 · Fear appeal) - [劉永福懸賞抓拿日本奸細告示 (Liu Yongfu's notice offering rewards for capturing Japanese spies), Taiwan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liu-yongfu-reward-notice-japanese-spies-1895/) (1895 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Sífilis: Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Syphilis: Absolute and Radical Cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sifilis-sanatorio-abreu-1900/) (1900 · Fear appeal) - [時局圖 (The Situation in the Far East / Map of the Present Situation), newer version with English labels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/situation-in-far-east-tse-tsan-tai-1900/) (1900 · Fear appeal)