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title: 6th War Loan
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/6th-war-loan-war-savings-bond-treasury-1944/
description: 'War loan poster: a tilted $100 Series E War Savings Bond made out to ''Mr. and Mrs. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.'
section: Collection
---

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[![6th War Loan, 1944 US poster: War loan poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/6th-war-loan-war-savings-bond-treasury-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/6th-war-loan-war-savings-bond-treasury-1944.jpg)

# 6th War Loan

War loan poster: a tilted $100 Series E War Savings Bond made out to 'Mr. and Mrs. America, Everywhere, U.S.A.' on a red field, with a large yellow '6th WAR LOAN'. The tell is the bond addressed to every household, which treats purchase as the ordinary act of an average family, with no explicit ask in the words.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
6th
WAR
LOAN
UNITED STATES SAVINGS BOND
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TEN YEARS FROM THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF WILL PAY
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
100
To
MR. AND MRS. AMERICA
EVERYWHERE
U. S. A.
CLEVELAND
WAR SAVINGS
BOND SERIES E
THIS BOND IS ISSUED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE SECOND LIBERTY BOND ACT, AS AMENDED, AND IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS STATED ON THE BACK HEREOF. IT WILL BE VALID ONLY WHEN INSCRIBED AND DATED, AND DELIVERED BY AN AUTHORIZED [illegible] [illegible] RECEIPT OF PAYMENT THEREFOR.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON
[signature on bond:] Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury
NOT TRANSFERABLE
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-609955  WFD 951
```

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