Following the Armistice, American cities put captured enemy weapons on public display to celebrate victory and encourage continued support for Liberty Loan bond drives. Here, an officer poses beside a German Minenwerfer, a heavy trench mortar seized as a war trophy, exhibited outside a Cincinnati civic building decorated with patriotic bunting. Such displays gave home-front civilians a tangible connection to the fighting overseas and were common features of WWI victory parades and fundraising events across Ohio in 1918 and 1919. Project: 218708