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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- 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)
Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1425 (NAID 515089).
Text on the object
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
