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title: Until He Comes Back! Buy Victory Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-until-he-comes-back-buy-victory-bonds-1939/
description: A woman and a girl write letters at a desk beneath a framed portrait of a smiling sailor in a crowned-badge cap.
section: Collection
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[![Until He Comes Back! Buy Victory Bonds, 1939 Canada poster: A woman and a girl write letters at a desk beneath a framed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-until-he-comes-back-buy-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-until-he-comes-back-buy-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)

# Until He Comes Back! Buy Victory Bonds

A woman and a girl write letters at a desk beneath a framed portrait of a smiling sailor in a crowned-badge cap; the letters begin 'Dear Daddy' and 'Dear Jack'. Text reads 'Until he comes back! Buy Victory Bonds'. The tell for transfer is the absent serviceman's portrait and family affection attached to the act of buying bonds.

## 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

```
UNTIL HE COMES BACK!
[letters in picture:] Dear Daddy ... WE ARE ALL BUYING BONDS ... SO WE CAN COME HOME [partly legible]; Dear Jack, we both miss you so much and ... are doing ... to keep ...
BUY
VICTORY BONDS
```

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