Shorpy always has great photos. You can spent way too much time digging through finding gems like this. The photo below is a scene replicating Joseph Leyendecker’s BSA Liberty Loan poster for bonds during World War I. Gotta love these colorized photos, though it’s not as good as the Lincoln or Lindbergh photos.
Check out the comparison … so cool!
Oh I’m a gaste — Kid playing with a very large knife. He could put somones eye out.
There’s a govt building called Liberty Loan…just south of the Bureau of Engraving. Looks about 1918 vintage.
Why under the neighborhoods is Hillcrest DC not included?
Swords don’t kill people, people do.
Dear Lifer: You are postulating a tempest in a teapot. The lad is not “playing with a very large knife,” he is kneeling stationary while holding an engraved scabbard in which is sheathed a sword. No alert scout of any age would hold a sword by its two cutting edges.
Mr Parakeet speculates that the Liberty Loan Federal Building was built “about 1918 vintage.” It was finished for occupancy in 1919. A good introduction to the subject can be read on http://www.gsa.gov/vpb/01024/index.html and https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/