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Back Your Future With U.S. Savings Bonds, 1946 US poster: Colour poster of a smiling father, mother, son with a toy plane

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 generalitiesPlain folks
Date
1946
Period
Cold War
Made by
U.S. Treasury Department (artist Englert)
Region
North America
Country
United States
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Truman Administration
Leader
Harry S. Truman
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Fundraise
Themes
Economy and finance, Home front
Event
World War II
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 (artist Englert). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-631 (NAID 514109).

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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