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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

"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

TransferGlittering generalities
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Canadian Victory Loan poster; artist Sampson (signature); H.M.C.S. cap tally; Canada inferred
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, Home front
Event
World War II
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
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; hosted by owner decision
Canadian Victory Loan poster; artist Sampson (signature); H.M.C.S. cap tally. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-615.

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.

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