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Something money can't buy... Your campaign ribbons, 1945 US poster: Photograph-based sheet showing a woman and a man

Something money can't buy... Your campaign ribbons

Photograph-based sheet showing a woman and a man in civilian work clothes wearing Army identification badges, with a tinted soldier and a chart of service ribbons behind them. A panel shows five War Department Civilian Service Award ribbons. The slogan, 'Something money can't buy', is a vague value claim, and the ribbons and uniformed figure lend military prestige to civilian work (transfer).

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

TransferGlittering generalities
Date
1945
Period
Second World War
Made by
War Department
Region
North America
Country
United States
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
Military
Regime
Truman Administration
Leader
Harry S. Truman
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Commemorate
Themes
Home front, War and the military, Labor
Event
World War II
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)
War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1780 (NAID 515453).

Text on the object

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

SOMETHING MONEY CAN'T BUY...

Service Ribbons
OF SERVICE MEDALS
[small ribbon captions on the background chart: illegible]

WAR DEPARTMENT CIVILIAN SERVICE AWARDS
ARMY SERVICE FORCES
ARMY AIR FORCES
ARMY GROUND FORCES
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF WAR
GENERAL STAFF

YOUR CAMPAIGN RIBBONS

[badge on the man's shirt:] ARMY ... DEPOT
[badge on the woman's blouse:] ARMY

[imprint:] P-X-27-SPB-11-15-45-85M

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