Figure it out yourself: boost your bond-buying thru payroll savings
Horizontal bond-drive sheet: a large pointing hand in a star-spangled sleeve extends toward the viewer on a red field under the headline 'Figure it out yourself', with a black panel asking workers to boost bond buying through payroll savings. The technique is faint; the national-costume sleeve lends official authority to a personal financial request.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information
- 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)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-766 (NAID 514254).
Text on the object
Figure it out yourself BOOST YOUR BOND-BUYING THRU PAYROLL SAVINGS AN OFFICIAL WAR MESSAGE DISTRIBUTED BY O. W. I. [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—533524 [imprint:] LITHO IN U. S. A.
