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Halt Hun 1918 | WW1 Propaganda Poster | Raleigh
Halt Hun 1918 | WW1 Propaganda Poster | Raleigh
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American soldier stands firm against a German attacker, his protective stance shielding a terrified woman clutching her child. The composition renders this confrontation against rising red flames, the stark palette of cream, black, and red reinforcing the poster's urgent wartime message.
Commissioned by the U.S. Treasury for the Third Liberty Loan campaign in 1918, designed by Henry Patrick Raleigh. Raleigh was one of America's highest-paid illustrators during the golden age of magazine art, recruited to create persuasive wartime imagery. The lithographic original was printed by Edwards & Deutsch Litho Co. of Chicago.
This poster exemplifies the "bloodthirsty Hun" theme that dominated American WWI propaganda. "Hun" was the derogatory British and American term for German soldiers during the Great War. The Third Liberty Loan Act authorized $3 billion in government bonds at 4.5% interest to fund the war effort.
Restored from archival sources and printed as an archival fine art reproduction.
