---
title: Declare a Paper Holiday for the Duration
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/declare-a-paper-holiday-wpb-1945/
description: 'Blue and red lettered poster under a spread-winged eagle holding arrows: ''Please don''t ask to have it wrapped''.'
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Declare a Paper Holiday for the Duration

[![Declare a Paper Holiday for the Duration, 1945 US poster: Blue and red lettered poster under a spread-winged eagle holding](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/declare-a-paper-holiday-wpb-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/declare-a-paper-holiday-wpb-1945.jpg)

# Declare a Paper Holiday for the Duration

Blue and red lettered poster under a spread-winged eagle holding arrows: 'Please don't ask to have it wrapped', 'Declare a Paper Holiday for the Duration', and a list of paper to save, closing with 'Paper has gone to war'. The tell is the eagle emblem and the war framing attached to a small shopping habit (transfer), with 'paper has gone to war' as a slogan in place of figures.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
PLEASE DON'T ASK TO HAVE IT WRAPPED

DECLARE A
PAPER HOLIDAY
FOR THE DURATION

SAVE { WRAPPING PAPER
PAPER BAGS
WASTE PAPER

PAPER HAS GONE TO WAR

WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945 -O- 647280
```

[← Cut Wolf Trees for Fuel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cut-wolf-trees-for-fuel-forest-service-1945/) [Did you get him enough... on time? →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/did-you-get-him-enough-on-time-1945/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities)
- [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities)
- [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (Roman Empire · 0313 · Glittering generalities)
- [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (Royal Museums Greenwich version), oil on panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-greenwich-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Medal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elizabeth-i-ark-medal-aftercast-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)