Content note: Shows clawed hands marked with a swastika and the Japanese rising-sun flag reaching toward a mother and infant. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Keep These Hands Off! Buy the New Victory Bonds
Bond-sale poster: a young woman holds an infant while two dark clawed hands reach in from the edges of the frame, one marked with a swastika and the other with the rising-sun rays of the Japanese flag. Mother and child stand for the home, the clawed hands for the Axis powers, and the closing line asks viewers to buy bonds as the response.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- No issuer printed (bond-sale poster); artist signature reads G. K. Odell (uncertain)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military
- 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)
No issuer printed (bond-sale poster); artist signature partly legible. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-97 (NAID 513550).
Text on the object
KEEP THESE HANDS OFF! BUY the new VICTORY BONDS [signature: G. K. Odell (reading uncertain)]
