Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe! Živnostenská Banka Filiale in Wien (Subscribe to the 7th War Loan! Živnostenská Banka, Vienna Branch)

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe! Živnostenská Banka Filiale in Wien (Subscribe to the 7th War Loan! Živnostenská Banka, Vienna Branch)

A girl in folk dress dances barefoot through a field of flowers toward a white dove, inside a lace-like border. It is a war-loan poster with no soldier or weapon in it: the dove of peace and the folk costume carry the appeal, lending their associations to a loan that financed the army.

Date
1917
Period
First World War
Made by
Živnostenská banka, Vienna branch (Austrian war-loan campaign); artist Minka Podhajská
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
Austria Hungary
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
Corporation
Regime
Austria Hungary
Leader
Karl I
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Fundraise
Themes
Economy and finance, Home front
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)
Podhajská, Minka, artist; Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, DLC, former owner. 1918. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-12196.

Text on the object

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

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe!

Živnostenská Banka Filiale in Wien.

Minka Podhajská [artist's signature, small, within the design]

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Subscribe to the 7th War Loan!

Živnostenská Bank, Vienna Branch.

A small round stamp or seal near the bottom of the oval border is too small and low-contrast to read and is not transcribed.