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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (issuer not printed; U.S. Government Printing Office imprint); artist signature reads approximately Mussell
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- 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)
U.S. Government. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-809 (NAID 514304).
Text on the object
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)]
