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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not printed (Victory Bonds campaign)
- 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, Labor, 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 (no imprint visible, 1939-1945 Canadian-context poster)
Issuer not printed (Victory Bonds campaign), National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-686.
Text on the object
THE LEAST I CAN DO! IS TO BUY VICTORY BONDS
