A Half-Filled Stamp Album is Like a Half-Equipped Soldier
A narrow strip poster: a helmeted soldier lunges with a rifle on the left, and an open stamp album with half its spaces empty sits on the right, under the line 'A half-filled stamp album is like a half-equipped soldier'. The tell is a comparison that ties an unfinished savings album to a soldier lacking equipment.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Savings Staff, U.S. Treasury Department (issuer inferred from the 'WSS' code; not named in print)
- 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, War and the military
- 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 Savings Staff, U.S. Treasury Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-277 (NAID 513726).
Text on the object
A Half-Filled Stamp Album is like a Half-Equipped Soldier [album page denominations, small print: partly legible] [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-496082 WSS 689
