1946 Resolution - that every American buy and hold U.S. Savings Bonds
Treasury bond poster: a parchment scroll in blackletter lettering, over a background of reproduced U.S. Savings Bonds, reads '1946 Resolution - that every American buy and hold U.S. Savings Bonds'. The tell is the bandwagon wording ('every American') and the New Year resolution frame, which presents bond-holding as a shared custom.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1408 (NAID 515072).
Text on the object
1946 Resolution -that every American buy and hold U.S. Savings Bonds [background, reproduced bond text:] UNITED STATES SAVINGS BOND / THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS / FIFTY DOLLARS / ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS / TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS / ISSUE DATE WHICH IS THE FIRST DAY OF / MR. AND MRS. AMERICA EVERYWHERE U.S.A. / WAR SAVINGS BOND SERIES E / [remaining bond and certificate fine print illegible] [imprint:] WFD-72-A [imprint:] OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER [imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945 — O - 674121
