Content note: Shows a caricature of a Japanese figure with exaggerated teeth and round glasses buried under a pour of molten metal, as printed in 1944. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Pour it on: Dec. 7th bond purchases
Bond-drive poster: a ladle tips a mass of yellow metal over a grimacing, bespectacled caricature of an enemy figure, shown with his head, clenched hands and a boot protruding from the pour. The text ties bond purchases to the anniversary of Pearl Harbor ('Dec. 7th'). The technique is a derisive caricature of the enemy (name-calling) paired with a transfer of the date's emotion to buying bonds.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government Printing Office (artist: White, USNR)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front, War and the military
- 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)
U.S. Government Printing Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1534 (NAID 515199).
Text on the object
POUR IT ON DEC. 7th BOND PURCHASES [signature: Wsd White USNR] [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944 O-606130]
Imprint digits at the lower right are very small; the number after 'O-' is read with low confidence.
