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title: Partners Wanted! Uncle Sam & Co.
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/partners-wanted-uncle-sam-and-co-war-bonds-1942/
description: 'Landscape bond-sale sheet styled as a business prospectus: a soldier with rifle and bayonet stands before barbed wire and a burning factory beside'
section: Collection
---

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[![Partners Wanted! Uncle Sam & Co., 1942 US poster: Landscape bond-sale sheet styled as a business prospectus](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/partners-wanted-uncle-sam-and-co-war-bonds-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/partners-wanted-uncle-sam-and-co-war-bonds-1942.jpg)

# Partners Wanted! Uncle Sam & Co.

Landscape bond-sale sheet styled as a business prospectus: a soldier with rifle and bayonet stands before barbed wire and a burning factory beside an 'Uncle Sam & Co.' banner. It lists investment benefits for War Bonds and asks for 10% of income every payday.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"UNCLE SAM & CO."
TANKS · SHIPS
GUNS · PLANES
Victory Models Only
PARTNERS WANTED!
New Capital Needed For
BUSINESS EXPANSION
•
SAFEST INVESTMENT
IN THE WORLD
•
Business Opportunity
for ALL Americans
WE MAKE AND GUAR-
ANTEE OUR PLANES,
SHIPS, TANKS AND
GUNS AND DELIVER
THEM WORLD WIDE
WITH Special DEL-
IVERIES TO JAPAN,
GERMANY AND ITALY
10% of your income
NEEDED IMMEDIATELY
every payday...
Buy WAR BONDS Today
...for details see your
CREDIT UNION
Copyright 1942
Compliments of CUNA Mutual Insurance Society, Madison, Wisconsin
Lithographed in U. S. A.
[imprint:] 2
[signature:] ZZ
```

[← Our spirit of '42: To give our best, that Liberty shall not perish from the earth](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-spirit-of-42-1942/) [Pipedown Sailor! Berlin's Listening! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pipedown-sailor-berlins-listening-1942/)

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