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title: I need your money to win this war
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-need-your-money-tva-war-bond-drive-1941/
description: 'TVA war bond drive poster: an Uncle Sam figure points straight at the viewer in front of a photograph of a spilling dam.'
section: Collection
---

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[![I need your money to win this war, 1941 US poster: TVA war bond drive poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/i-need-your-money-tva-war-bond-drive-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/i-need-your-money-tva-war-bond-drive-1941.jpg)

# I need your money to win this war

TVA war bond drive poster: an Uncle Sam figure points straight at the viewer in front of a photograph of a spilling dam, with the headline 'I need your money to win this war'. The footer asks 'Where does your department stand in the TVA War Bond Drive'. The dam and the national figure lend the agency's work to the appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
I need your money
to win this war
WHERE DOES YOUR DEPARTMENT STAND
IN THE TVA WAR BOND DRIVE
```

[← "I have but one skin to give to my country"... make the most of it!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-have-but-one-skin-to-give-leather-1941/) [I want to preach a sermon... →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-want-to-preach-a-sermon-us-rubber-1941/)

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