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title: Why Pick Your Own Pocket?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-why-pick-your-own-pocket-victory-bonds-1939/
description: A cartoon workman in overalls, holding a wrench, tucks Dominion of Canada bonds into his shirt while scratching his head.
section: Collection
---

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[![Why Pick Your Own Pocket?, 1939 Canada poster: A cartoon workman in overalls, holding a wrench, tucks Dominion of Canada](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-why-pick-your-own-pocket-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-why-pick-your-own-pocket-victory-bonds-1939.jpg)

# Why Pick Your Own Pocket?

A cartoon workman in overalls, holding a wrench, tucks Dominion of Canada bonds into his shirt while scratching his head, under 'Why pick your own pocket?' and 'Keep your Victory Bonds and Certificates ... some day they'll help keep you'. The tell is the everyday worker figure as the model for holding bonds rather than cashing them (plain folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
WHY PICK YOUR OWN POCKET?
"KEEP YOUR VICTORY BONDS AND CERTIFICATES
... SOME DAY THEY'LL HELP KEEP YOU"
[on bonds:] DOMINION OF CANADA
```

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