Wear Your Honor Button: 4th Liberty Loan Bonds, 1918 US poster: A round emblem shows a flag with four vertical bars

Wear Your Honor Button: 4th Liberty Loan Bonds

A round emblem shows a flag with four vertical bars and the words 'Fourth Liberty Loan' above a call to wear the honor button and buy 4th Liberty Loan Bonds. The button works as a visible badge, so that buying is made publicly signalled and its absence noticeable.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
1918
Made by
U.S. Treasury Department (Fourth Liberty Loan campaign)
Region
North America
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Wilson Administration
Leader
Woodrow Wilson
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Fundraise
Themes
Economy and finance, Home front
Event
World War I
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Rights
NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Treasury Department (Fourth Liberty Loan campaign). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-194.

Text on the object

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

WEAR YOUR
FOURTH
LIBERTY LOAN
HONOR BUTTON
4th LIBERTY LOAN
BONDS
11 B
The Commercial Ptg. & Litho. Co., Akron, O.