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title: 'Keep It Up: Save and Lend Through the Post Office Savings Bank and Trustee Savings Banks'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-keep-it-up-save-and-lend-post-office-savings-bank-1939/
description: A blue-tinted barrage balloon floats on cables above the hand-lettered words 'Keep it up', over a request to save through the Post Office Savings Bank
section: Collection
---

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[![Keep It Up: Save and Lend Through the Post Office Savings Bank and Trustee Savings Banks, 1939 UK poster: A blue-tinted](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-keep-it-up-save-and-lend-post-office-savings-bank-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-keep-it-up-save-and-lend-post-office-savings-bank-1939.jpg)

# Keep It Up: Save and Lend Through the Post Office Savings Bank and Trustee Savings Banks

A blue-tinted barrage balloon floats on cables above the hand-lettered words 'Keep it up', over a request to save through the Post Office Savings Bank and Trustee Savings Banks. The tell is the pun, which moves the visible defence image of the balloon onto the act of saving.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Keep it up
SAVE AND LEND THROUGH THE
POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK
and TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS
W.F.P. 121. Issued by the National Savings Committee, London; Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh; Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast.
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co., Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham and London. 51-8287.
```

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