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title: We Fire a Shell with Every Liberty Bond We Sell. Get Yours To-day!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-fire-a-shell-with-every-liberty-bond-we-sell-1917/
description: Hand-lettered red and black text curves around a black artillery shell marked 'shell' and a bond certificate marked '(Liberty) Bond'.
section: Collection
---

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[![We Fire a Shell with Every Liberty Bond We Sell. Get Yours To-day!, 1917 US poster: Hand-lettered red and black text curves](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-fire-a-shell-with-every-liberty-bond-we-sell-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-fire-a-shell-with-every-liberty-bond-we-sell-1917.jpg)

# We Fire a Shell with Every Liberty Bond We Sell. Get Yours To-day!

Hand-lettered red and black text curves around a black artillery shell marked 'shell' and a bond certificate marked '(Liberty) Bond'. The slogan equates each bond purchase with a shell fired, transferring the weight of the gun to the act of lending.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
We fire
a
shell
with
every
(Liberty)
Bond
we sell-
Get yours
To-day!

[Stamp at left, upside down and partly illegible: ... STORES CO. ... [illegible]]
```

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