I'm Making Bombs and Buying Bonds
A smiling woman in a headscarf holds up a bomb casing in a photographic image above a red band reading 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The tell is the plain-folks framing: an ordinary munitions worker is shown doing both the work and the buying, with the slogan casting bond purchase as part of that role.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- No issuer or printer imprint on the sheet; Canadian Victory Loan campaign subject
- 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, Gender and suffrage
- 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 wartime poster, no rights statement)
No imprint, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-628.
Text on the object
I'm making bombs and buying bonds! Buy VICTORY BONDS
