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Lot 564
Sale 1252 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 30, 2023
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$630
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[WWI-WWII]. 14 World War I and Word War II posters, incl. examples by CHRISTY, HIRSCH, & ROCKWELL.
HIRSCH, Joseph, artist. Till We Meet Again! Buy War Bonds! (folds, some light soiling to verso near folds). -- ROCKWELL, Norman, artist. Save Freedom of Speech. Buy War Bonds. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1943 (some short tears to margins, folds). -- EVELEIGH, Henry, artist. Let's Go...Canada! (some creasing and wear to margins). -- BROWN, Arthur William, artist. For Your Boy. United War Work Campaign November 11-18, 1918. Philadelphia: Ketterlinus, 1918 (significant wear to margins, including 5 1/4 in. tear extending from right edge, corner loss). -- WILLIAMS, artist. What have you given? (paper residue above "have," wear to margins including chipping, creasing, short tears). -- Ring it again. Buy US Gov't. Bonds. Third Liberty Loan. New York: Sackett & Wilhelms Corp. (2) (one example with top right corner fully separated, wear to margins). -- Buy Liberty Bonds. Features portrait of Lincoln with quote below (2) (each with wear to margins including short tears, some corner loss). -- Says Mike: It's got to be right -- to Win the Fight. Ottawa, Canada (folds, chipping and creasing to margins). -- KAUFFER, E. Mcknight, artist. Greece Fights On. Washington, DC: Greek Office of Information (folds, creasing, chipping and wear to margins). -- BABCOCK, R. Fayerweather, artist. The Foster Mother of the World. Preserve Her, Improve Her Stock, Help Her to Produce More and Better Dairy Products. Illinois: Department of Agriculture (2) (each with wear to margins, including few large tears and loss to lower right corner of one example). -- CHRISTY, Howard Chandler, artist. Fight or Buy Bonds. Third Liberty Loan. Boston: Forbes, 1917 (wear to margins, including chipping, areas of loss, 4 1/2 in. tear along right edge).
Together, 14 posters, smallest 20 x 26 1/4 in., largest 40 x 60 in. Condition generally fair. All with wear to margins, including creasing, chipping, short tears.
Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields













