Description
The Boys and Girls War Savings Stamps poster
“Boys and Girls! You can help your Uncle Sam win the war. Save your quarters, buy War Savings Stamps” is a World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg, the artist behind the famous “I Want You” Uncle Sam. Issued around 1917 to 1918 for the U.S. Treasury’s War Savings campaign and printed by the American Lithographic Co. of New York, it shows Uncle Sam holding a W.S.S. card while a girl and a boy gather at his side. The message was written for children: one 25-cent Thrift Stamp at a time, they could help pay for the war.
It is one of Flagg’s warmest wartime designs and a charming piece of American home-front history for a study, classroom, library or family room.
Read the full history of the poster, the artist and how War Savings Stamps worked.
Restored edition
Restored from an archival scan of an original print. Yellowed paper, fading, stains and edge wear were cleaned up and the colours brought back, keeping Flagg’s loose brushwork, his signature and the W.S.S. emblem true to the original. Drag the before and after slider below to compare.
Sizes and options
- Paper print: 11.7 × 16.5 in, 20 × 28 in or 23.4 × 33.1 in
- Framed print: 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in or 23 × 33 in, in a black, white or natural wood frame, ready to hang
Printed to order in the USA on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper. Free Standard shipping to the US. Compare the print sizes.
More Uncle Sam and savings posters
See Flagg’s best-known design in I Want You: James Montgomery Flagg’s Uncle Sam Poster, or how the same savings idea was sold a generation later in Ferdinand Warren’s 1942 Attack Attack Attack: Buy War Bonds.
