Homesickness Can Be Cured...
Black-and-white drug-store sheet showing a helmeted soldier in a jungle camp holding a letter, beside a mock prescription from 'Makepeace Quick, M.D.' that orders 'U.S. War Bonds and Stamps every pay day until the war is won and our boys are back home'. The tell is transfer: the medical prescription form lends authority to a bond-buying request, with the store name at the foot.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Liggett's, The Rexall Drug Stores
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- 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)
Liggett's, The Rexall Drug Stores. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1001 (NAID 514527).
Text on the object
Homesickness Can Be Cured... MAKEPEACE QUICK, M.D. ADDRESS, U.S.A. Rx Effective only when dispensed in large doses. U. S. War Bonds and Stamps Every Pay Day until the war is won and our boys are back home Makepeace Quick, M.D. THIS PRESCRIPTION CAN BE FILLED AT ALL LIGGETT DRUG STORES [handwritten letter:] Dearest Bill, Wednesday ... darling, if you ... how I missed ... [illegible] Liggett's THE REXALL DRUG STORES
