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title: Back Your Future With U.S. Savings Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/back-your-future-savings-bonds-1946/
description: Colour poster of a smiling father, mother, son with a toy plane and daughter with a book looking up beneath a large flag.
section: Collection
---

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# Back Your Future With U.S. Savings Bonds

Colour poster of a smiling father, mother, son with a toy plane and daughter with a book looking up beneath a large flag, with a hand in a starred cuff reaching toward it. 'Back your future with U.S. savings bonds'. The tell is the ordinary family and the unspecified 'future' (plain-folks, glittering-generalities) as the case for buying bonds.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Back
YOUR
FUTURE

With U.S.
SAVINGS BONDS

[signature:] ENGLERT
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946 -O- 692106
OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER
SBD 78
```

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