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title: Keep it up! Buy U.S. Bonds Stamps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-it-up-buy-us-bonds-stamps-1942/
description: 'Bond and stamp poster: a dark twin-engine bomber seen from below crosses a yellow field, with ''BUY U.S. BONDS * STAMPS'' lettered along its wings and ''keep'
section: Collection
---

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[![Keep it up! Buy U.S. Bonds Stamps, 1942 US poster: Bond and stamp poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-it-up-buy-us-bonds-stamps-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-it-up-buy-us-bonds-stamps-1942.jpg)

# Keep it up! Buy U.S. Bonds Stamps

Bond and stamp poster: a dark twin-engine bomber seen from below crosses a yellow field, with 'BUY U.S. BONDS * STAMPS' lettered along its wings and 'keep it up!' in script at lower left. The technique is faint: the aircraft's climb is attached to buying, a transfer from the war effort to the purchase. A boxed Minute Man figure sits at upper left.

## 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

```
BUY U.S. BONDS * STAMPS
keep it up!
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942 1-449416]
[illegible: small printed credit at lower left]
```

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