"High Sign" for victory! Boost your payroll savings
Treasury poster: a railroad worker leaning from a car holds up a lantern in the dark, headline '"High Sign" for victory!', with 'Boost your payroll savings' and a 'Buy War Bonds' shield. The tell is the working man's signal gesture used to link a wage deduction to victory.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- 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. Treasury Department, War Finance Division. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-990 (NAID 514497).
Text on the object
"High Sign" for Victory! BOOST your PAYROLL SAVINGS BUY WAR BONDS [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-572593 OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER WFD 886
