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This poster advertising bonds includes a battle scene featuring a lone African American soldier with rifle and bayonet holding off German troops. Explosions and a tattered American flag appear in the background. It is based on a painting by Jennie Touissant Welcome entitled "Charge of the Colored Divisions." [New York] Touissant Studios, [1918] Poster advertising bonds for Commonwealth Liberty Loan Committee, Boston.
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