Buy Bonds Regularly, Hold Them
Treasury bond poster: a white panel headed 'War-Bond Timetable' tabulates weekly savings against the sums accumulated in 1, 5 and 10 years, under an orange field of white diagonal words such as 'Buy a home' and 'Educate the children'. The tell is selective presentation: only the savings returns and the goals they could fund are shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-533 (NAID 514012).
Text on the object
BUY BONDS REGULARLY HOLD THEM AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WAR-BOND TIMETABLE WEEKLY SAVINGS | SAVINGS AND INTEREST ACCUMULATED IN 1 YR. | IN 5 YRS. | IN 10 YRS. $3.75 | $195.00 | $1,004.20 | $2,163.45 6.25 | 325.00 | 1,674.16 | 3,607.54 7.50 | 390.00 | 2,009.02 | 4,329.02 9.38 | 487.76 | 2,513.42 | 5,416.97 12.50 | 650.00 | 3,348.95 | 7,217.20 15.00 | 780.00 | 4,018.67 | 8,660.42 18.75 | 975.00 | 5,024.24 | 10,828.74 Background words, repeated diagonally and partly cropped: EDUCATE THE CHILDREN, BUY A HOME, EMERGENCY FUND, START A BUSINESS, FOOD, RENT, CLOTHING, RETIREMENT, TRAVEL [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945—O—[illegible]] OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER WFD 981
