3e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Le bas de laine Français

An old man and woman at a table counting coins they have kept in a woolen stocking. It was common for people of the working classes to keep their gold coins hidden in woolen stockings.
Translation of title: The 3rd National Defense Loan. France's woolen stocking.
Signed: Ridgeway Knight.
Woodward & Lothrop, donor.
Promotional goal: Fr. J8. 1917.
Item is no. 44 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
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