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title: Sure! We'll Finish the Job. Victory Liberty Loan
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sure-well-finish-the-job-victory-liberty-loan-1919/
description: A smiling workman in overalls, with rolled sleeves, a red armband and a row of badges on his bib, looks out at the viewer. The words 'Sure!
section: Collection
---

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[![Sure! We'll Finish the Job. Victory Liberty Loan, 1919 US poster: A smiling workman in overalls, with rolled sleeves, a red](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sure-well-finish-the-job-victory-liberty-loan-1919.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sure-well-finish-the-job-victory-liberty-loan-1919.jpg)

# Sure! We'll Finish the Job. Victory Liberty Loan

A smiling workman in overalls, with rolled sleeves, a red armband and a row of badges on his bib, looks out at the viewer. The words 'Sure! We'll finish the job' are set beside him above 'Victory Liberty Loan.' The tell is the ordinary worker speaking for everyone in the first-person plural, which presents buying the final bond issue as what working people already agree to do.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SURE!
We'll
Finish
the Job

VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN

Gerrit A. Beneker 1918
[imprint, lower right, very small: EDWARDS & DEUTSCH LITHO. CO. CHICAGO]
```

The artist's signature and year appear at lower left of the image; the very small printer's imprint at lower right reads as Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co., Chicago.

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