Margie poster no. 6 - Letters to soldiers concerning soldiers' deposits and savings
Color photographic poster of a woman in a straw hat and gingham dress leaning back with a fishing rod, beside a handwritten note signed Margie about postwar plans and 'loose cash', with five checked savings options listed below. The technique is faint here: the closest is plain-folks, a friendly personal voice addressed to servicemen.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Savings promotion poster for U.S. servicemen (issuer not named; printed U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- 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)
Savings promotion poster for U.S. servicemen. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1334B (NAID 514983).
Text on the object
sure I'm fishing. We gals have postwar plans, too, and you're right in the middle of them. We're saving to make them come true, and we'd like to think you are too. I hear tell there's nothing slipperier than loose cash, so why not pop it into savings before it has a chance to skid? Love, Margie SOLDIERS' DEPOSITS PERSONAL TRANSFER ACCOUNT CLASS E ALLOTMENTS OF PAY WAR BONDS NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE MARGIE POSTER SP NO. 6 U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--O--604497 [imprint: small print at lower right] 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)
