Every bale a bond
War Bonds poster aimed at cotton growers: a photograph of stacked cotton bales with a $25 Series E Defense Savings Bond laid across them, under the slogan 'Every Bale a Bond'. Beneath: 'For Future Security invest in War Bonds'. It pairs a crop with a purchase, and offers future security as the benefit; costs and risks of buying are not shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-733 (NAID 514221).
Text on the object
Every BALE a BOND For Future Security INVEST IN WAR BONDS [imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—537321 (Illustrated bond text, partly legible:) The United States of America. $25. TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. DEFENSE SAVINGS BOND SERIES E. DUE 10 YEARS FROM SUCH DATE. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON. [illegible]
