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title: Send The Boys Good Books And Magazines
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-send-the-boys-good-books-and-magazines-1941/
description: Three open books each carry a service cap, a naval cap marked 'H.M.C.S.' and two army field caps, and the words of the slogan run across their pages.
section: Collection
---

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[![Send The Boys Good Books And Magazines, 1941 Canada poster: Three open books each carry a service cap, a naval cap marked](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-send-the-boys-good-books-and-magazines-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-send-the-boys-good-books-and-magazines-1941.jpg)

# Send The Boys Good Books And Magazines

Three open books each carry a service cap, a naval cap marked 'H.M.C.S.' and two army field caps, and the words of the slogan run across their pages. The caps put the sailors and soldiers in the reader's place, and a blank box is left for the local salvage committee's telephone number.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SEND THE BOYS good BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

H.M.C.S.

GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR LOCAL SALVAGE COMMITTEE  TEL.

ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR NATIONAL SALVAGE OFFICE, OTTAWA, UNDER AUTHORITY OF HONOURABLE J. T. THORSON, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES. Printed in Canada
BM-2E

[signature:] CLAIR STEWART
```

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