Hasten the Homecoming
Victory Bonds poster showing a soldier with a kit bag standing in a tenement backyard while neighbours wave from steps, windows, a tree and a roof, with service flags in the windows. The headline reads 'Hasten the Homecoming' and the base line 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The technique is plain-folks warmth: an ordinary street welcomes one man home, tying bond buying to that return.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not printed (Victory Bonds poster, after Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post cover painting)
- 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)
Issuer not printed. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-935 (NAID 514441).
Text on the object
Hasten the Homecoming BUY VICTORY BONDS [imprint: FROM SATURDAY EVENING POST COVER PAINTING BY NORMAN ROCKWELL (small print, partly illegible)]
