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title: Now I can buy the things I love! Here's my passport to independence
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/now-i-can-buy-the-things-i-love-1941/
description: Illustrated sheet of a smiling woman in a head scarf holding a paycheck, with a speech balloon saying she can now buy the things she loves and a line
section: Collection
---

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[![Now I can buy the things I love! Here's my passport to independence, 1941 US poster: Illustrated sheet of a smiling woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-i-can-buy-the-things-i-love-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-i-can-buy-the-things-i-love-1941.jpg)

# Now I can buy the things I love! Here's my passport to independence

Illustrated sheet of a smiling woman in a head scarf holding a paycheck, with a speech balloon saying she can now buy the things she loves and a line calling the pay her passport to independence. The technique is plain-folks, an ordinary worker speaking in her own voice, with the broad word 'independence'. The sheet does not say what the viewer is asked to do.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Now I CAN
BUY THE THINGS
I LOVE !
PAYCHECK
The First National Bank
No. A62411
Pay to Order of [illegible]
$[illegible]
Dollars
[signature: Packer]
HERE'S MY PASSPORT
TO INDEPENDENCE
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
[imprint: B-17b (partly legible)]
Copyright, BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
```

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