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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- CUNA Mutual Insurance Society (Madison, Wisconsin), for credit unions
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- 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)
CUNA Mutual Insurance Society (Madison, Wisconsin), for credit unions. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1499 (NAID 515164).
Text on the object
"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
