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title: 'Our Boys Need the Makins on Their Way "Over There": An Army Girl''s Transport Tobacco Fund Does It'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-boys-need-the-makins-on-their-way-over-there-1918/
description: Three uniformed soldiers on a ship's rail, two waving and one lighting a cigarette, appear under the headline 'Our Boys Need the Makins on Their Way Over
section: Collection
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# Our Boys Need the Makins on Their Way "Over There": An Army Girl's Transport Tobacco Fund Does It

Three uniformed soldiers on a ship's rail, two waving and one lighting a cigarette, appear under the headline 'Our Boys Need the Makins on Their Way Over There.' Small print states the fund is the only one supplying smokes to troops en route to France and gives a New York treasurer's address for contributions. The tell is the cheerful, ordinary-soldier scene used to attach goodwill toward the troops to a request for money.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

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

```
Our Boys Need The Makins
On Their Way "Over There"
An Army Girl's
Transport
Tobacco Fund
Does it
This is the only fund that supplies "smokes" to our troops
ON THEIR WAY to France - Send your contribution
to Captain Samuel Frothingham, U.S.R. Treasurer, 25 Pine Street, N.Y. City.
```

[← اودھ کے برہمنوں اور راجپوتوں سے ایک اپیل (An Appeal to the Brahmins and Rajputs of Oudh)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/oudh-appeal-to-brahmins-and-rajputs-1918/) [Our Country Needs Ships →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-country-needs-ships-shipping-board-1918/)

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