---
title: 'Keep it up: Buy United States War Bonds'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-it-up-buy-united-states-war-bonds-1942/
description: 'Horizontal bond banner: a blue bomber silhouette with ''KEEP IT UP'' lettered along its wing, trailing speed streaks.'
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Keep it up: Buy United States War Bonds

[![Keep it up: Buy United States War Bonds, 1942 US poster: Horizontal bond banner](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-it-up-buy-united-states-war-bonds-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-it-up-buy-united-states-war-bonds-1942.jpg)

# Keep it up: Buy United States War Bonds

Horizontal bond banner: a blue bomber silhouette with 'KEEP IT UP' lettered along its wing, trailing speed streaks, beside 'BUY UNITED STATES' in blue and 'WAR BONDS' in large red type. The technique is faint: the aircraft's motion is attached to the act of buying, a transfer from the war effort to the purchase.

## 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

```
KEEP IT UP
BUY UNITED STATES
WAR BONDS
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-471853 WSS 517-B]
```

[← Keep him goose-stepping!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-him-goose-stepping-oldsmobile-1942/) [Keep it up! Buy U.S. Bonds Stamps →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-it-up-buy-us-bonds-stamps-1942/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer)
- [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial)
- [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account.
- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)