Halt the Hun!
Date1918
Artist
Henry Patrick Raleigh
(American illustrator, 1880–1944)
Printer/Printmaker
Edwards & Deutsch, Lithographing Co.
(Chicago printing company, begun 1896)
Illustration CitationWorld War I poster advertising United States Government Bonds
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 29 7/16 × 19 7/8 in. (74.8 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1979
Object number1979-225
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis poster was designed for the Third Liberty Loan campaign in which the general public was encouraged to buy U.S. Government Bonds. "The Hun" was a common pejorative used in America for the German enemy; the eipthet associated German soldiers with Attila’s nomadic hoards of the 5th century ACE who swept across the continent committing slaughter and destruction.
Henry Patrick Raleigh
1937
Henry Patrick Raleigh
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