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title: Margie poster SP no. 5
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/margie-poster-5-1944/
description: 'Colour poster in the ''Margie'' series of letters to soldiers: a woman in overalls and a striped blouse, resting her head on one hand.'
section: Collection
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[![Margie poster SP no. 5, 1944 US poster: Colour poster in the 'Margie' series of letters to soldiers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/margie-poster-5-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/margie-poster-5-1944.jpg)

# Margie poster SP no. 5

Colour poster in the 'Margie' series of letters to soldiers: a woman in overalls and a striped blouse, resting her head on one hand, reads a note beside a lunch pail. A handwritten note signed 'Margie' urges the reader to save pay, with a printed checklist of soldiers' deposits, transfer accounts, allotments, War Bonds and insurance. The tell is the girl-at-home voice (plain-folks), with homecoming scenes attached to saving (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SOLDIERS' DEPOSITS
PERSONAL TRANSFER ACCOUNT
CLASS E ALLOTMENTS OF PAY
WAR BONDS
NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE
and we gals can hardly
wait to swap our
overalls for aprons
when you come home.
Of course it may
take a little time
for us to get settled
down, but the money
you put aside now
from each pay will
speed the day.
Love,
Margie
MARGIE POSTER SP NO. 5
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 - O-604495
C OVERSEAS AND PASSING THROUGH PE (1): FOR DISPLAY IN ORDERLY OR DAY ROOMS; POST EXCHANGES OVERSEAS AND IN PE (1); RECREATION HALLS, OVERSEAS AND IN PE (1); RED CROSS INSTALLATIONS OVERSEAS AND IN PE (1); PE (SAVINGS PROMOTION OFF) (50); T OF OPNS (SAVINGS PROMOTION OFF) (10); SV C (OVERSEAS) (SAVINGS PROMOTION OFF) (10); BASE COMD (SAVINGS PROMOTION OFF) (10); ISLAND COMD (SAVINGS PROMOTION OFF) (10); AREAS (SAVINGS PROMOTION OFF) (10).
```

[← Margie poster SP no. 4](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/margie-poster-4-1944/) [Margie poster no. 6 - Letters to soldiers concerning soldiers' deposits and savings →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/margie-poster-6-fishing-loose-cash-1944/)

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