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title: The Least I Can Do! Is to Buy Victory Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-the-least-i-can-do-victory-bonds-1939/
description: A photograph shows a machinist beside a drill press, looking at the viewer and holding banknotes and a pay envelope, under the words 'The least I can do!
section: Collection
---

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[![The Least I Can Do! Is to Buy Victory Bonds, 1939 Canada poster: A photograph shows a machinist beside a drill press, looking](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-the-least-i-can-do-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-the-least-i-can-do-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)

# The Least I Can Do! Is to Buy Victory Bonds

A photograph shows a machinist beside a drill press, looking at the viewer and holding banknotes and a pay envelope, under the words 'The least I can do! Is to buy Victory Bonds'. The tell (plain-folks) is the ordinary working man speaking as the buyer; the wording also frames buying as a minimum owed by everyone.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THE LEAST I CAN DO!
IS TO BUY
VICTORY BONDS
```

[← That's Why I Buy Victory Bonds!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-thats-why-i-buy-victory-bonds-adams-1939/) [The Men Are Ready... Only You Can Give Them Wings →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-the-men-are-ready-give-them-wings-1939/)

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