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title: '"Gangway" Buy Victory Bonds'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ca-gangway-buy-victory-bonds-1939/
description: A smiling sailor in an H.M.C.S. cap is shown from below, with the words 'Gangway' and 'Buy Victory Bonds'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[!["Gangway" Buy Victory Bonds, 1939 Canada poster: A smiling sailor in an H.M.C.S. cap is shown from below, with the words](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ca-gangway-buy-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ca-gangway-buy-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)

# "Gangway" Buy Victory Bonds

A smiling sailor in an H.M.C.S. cap is shown from below, with the words 'Gangway' and 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The tell for transfer is the naval uniform and heroic low angle attached to the purchase request; the tell for glittering-generalities is the unexplained 'Victory' label with no figure or stated use of the money.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"GANGWAY"
Buy
VICTORY BONDS
[signature:] SAMPSON
[cap tally:] H.M.C.S.
```

[← For Your Future Good Fortune - Buy Victory Bonds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ca-for-your-future-good-fortune-victory-bonds-1939/) [Give 'em the Payroll Punch! Buy Victory Bonds →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ca-give-em-the-payroll-punch-victory-bonds-1939/)

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