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Title: A Stitch in time: 4th Liberty Loan
Summary: Poster showing Uncle Sam stitching countries of Europe together.

Title: Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons: buy a United States government bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917
Summary: Uncle Sam with armies in background; Statue of Liberty also in background with planes in the air and ships in the sea.

Title: JM-185: Tag day
Summary: This cartoon depicts two people asking for money. The top panel shows a woman collecting money for the poor and destitute on Tag Day. Tag Day is a day where people will collect money for a charity, and donors will receive a tag showing they donated. The caption for this panel says to remember the children of the poor when being ask the give. The bottom panel shows an officer asking the same man to purchase a liberty loan subscription. These were bonds distributed by the government that were used to support the war effort. In 1917, the United States was a member of the Allied Powers in World War I, which included France, England, Italy, etc. The This panel is captioned, “Don’t forget your own children when you are asked to subscribe for Liberty bonds”. The man is more skeptical of this purchase than of his donation on Tag Day. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)