Content note: Racial caricature of a Japanese figure and the printed slur 'Jap' (the arm is labelled 'Jap Treachery'), with swastikas, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Remember Pearl Harbor, Buy War Bonds
A Statue of Liberty figure holds her torch up while a hairy arm labelled 'Jap Treachery' raises a swastika-hilted knife marked 'Dec. 7th'. At lower left a grinning, bespectacled caricature in a swastika-marked jacket offers a 'Peace' branch. The slur, the caricature and the knife stage the attack as treachery, a name-calling and fear-appeal frame, ending in 'Buy War Bonds'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Louis R. Samish (artist); Alex. Dulfer Printing and Lithographing Co. and Everett Pulp & Paper Co. (producers), 'Dedicated to Victory'
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity, Economy and finance
- 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)
Louis R. Samish / privately produced. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1627 (NAID 515293).
Text on the object
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR JAP TREACHERY DEC. 7TH P E A C E BUY WAR BONDS [signature: L.R. SAMISH] [imprint: Dedicated to Victory — Louis R. Samish, Artist; Alex. Dulfer Printing and Lithographing Co. and Everett Pulp & Paper Co. Producers] (Copyright applied for) [printer's mark at lower left: illegible]
