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title: For their future - Buy War Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/for-their-future-buy-war-bonds-1943/
description: 'Colour poster of a framed painting: a blonde woman in a navy sweater and red-and-white striped skirt holds a toddler.'
section: Collection
---

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[![For their future - Buy War Bonds, 1943 US poster: Colour poster of a framed painting](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/for-their-future-buy-war-bonds-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/for-their-future-buy-war-bonds-1943.jpg)

# For their future - Buy War Bonds

Colour poster of a framed painting: a blonde woman in a navy sweater and red-and-white striped skirt holds a toddler, with a black lamb wearing a flower wreath beside them. A card reads 'For their future -' and a brass plate reads 'BUY WAR BONDS'. The technique is transfer, family warmth attached to the purchase request, with an unspecified 'future'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
For their
future -
BUY WAR BONDS
[signature: illegible, reads approximately Mussell]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-513138  WNA 770-A (small print, reading approximate)]
```

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