Details

Subject(s)

• Banks and banking—United States [Browse]
• Bonds—United States [Browse]
• Debts, Public—United States [Browse]
• Finance, Public—United States [Browse]
• Liberty bonds [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Finance—United States [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Propaganda—United States [Browse]
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) [Browse]
• National War Savings Committee (U.S.) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Advertisements [Browse]
• Clippings [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1912-1919

Restrictions note

Collection is open for research use.

Summary note

• The Liberty Loan Committee coordinated campaigns to sell U.S. Treasury bonds to the American public from 1917 to 1919 in order to fund United States involvement in World War I. The Committee was managed by the Federal Reserve. The Liberty Loan Committee Records document the four Liberty Loan and the Victory Loan campaigns and include advertisements, committee memoranda, forms and descriptions of the loans, and subscription information.
• The Liberty Loan Committee Records document the four Liberty Loan and the Victory Loan campaigns and include advertisements, committee memoranda, forms and descriptions of the loans, and subscription information. Additionally, the records include materials about other organizations active during World War I, especially those involved in fundraising and aid work, including the sale of war savings stamps by the National War Savings Committee. Please see the series descriptions in the contents list for additional information about individual series.

Publications about

The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the organizational history: The ABC of the Federal Reserve System by Edwin W. Kemmerer. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1936. "History Lesson: Loans for Nearly Everyone" by James Grant. Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, June 6, 1992. A History of the Federal Reserve by Allan H. Meltzer. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2003. "Liberty Loan Triumph Seen Ten Years After" by Carson H. Hathaway. The New York Times, May 8, 1927.

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