![Buy Victory Bonds [1], 1939 Canada poster: A photograph shows a soldier in a side cap, rifle at his shoulder, holding](../images/buy-victory-bonds-soldier-and-crying-child-1939.jpg)
Buy Victory Bonds [1]
A photograph shows a soldier in a side cap, rifle at his shoulder, holding a crying small child against his cheek, above a red band reading 'BUY VICTORY BONDS'. The tell is the child's distress: the photograph invites worry for the family at home and attaches the purchase to protecting it, with no figure or argument given.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Canadian Victory Loan campaign (issuer not printed on the poster)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military, 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; Canadian wartime poster, published 1939-1945; hosted by owner decision
Canadian Victory Loan campaign, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-581.
Text on the object
BUY VICTORY BONDS
