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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-627 (NAID 514105).
Text on the object
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
