Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them! Hang on to your war bonds
Drawing of a brooding hen with chicks, in brown and yellow, under the headline Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them! and the line Hang on to your WAR BONDS. The barnyard idiom does the persuading, a folksy plain-folks register asking buyers to keep bonds rather than cash them; the technique is faint.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1395 (NAID 515059).
Text on the object
Nest eggs won't hatch unless you set on them! Hang on to your WAR BONDS [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-609248] OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER WFD-949
