Joan of Arc saved France: Women of America save your country - Buy War Savings Stamps.

[Washington, D.C.] & New York: U.S. Treasury Dept., United States Printing & Lithograph Co., 1918. One large original poster, 20 x 30 in., colour lithograph (toning to fore-edges, couple minor closed tears neatly repaired on verso, minor chipping to corners, oxidization of paper on verso), still a remarkably bright copy with little sunning to the image retaining the original richness. First edition of this very popular poster executed by Haskell Coffin in 1918 employing the image of Joan of Arc to pull at the heartstrings of American women to buy War Savings Stamps for the war effort. Cecil B. DeMille’s 1916 epic film, Joan: The Woman had generated so much press coverage, and movie lovers that Joan of Arc had become a household name. War Savings Stamps were inexpensive, and after completing a booklet could be converted into War Bonds -- these drives funded two-thirds of the American war effort in World War I. Coffin (1878-1941) flourished as a commercial artist through the opening decades of the 20th Century, producing covers for Redbook, McCall’s, Leslie’s Illustrated, The Saturday Evening Post, and producing iconic posters for the War effort.