War Savings will make your dreams come true
A smiling woman in a factory cap works a lathe, with a painted scene of a man mowing a lawn and a woman and two children gardening behind her. 'Your dreams' is left unspecified and the garden scene stands in for it, so the pitch rests on a pleasant word and picture rather than on any stated return.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- National Savings Committee (London) and Scottish Savings Committee (Edinburgh), printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Howitt & Son Ltd., Nottingham
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
National Savings Committee and Scottish Savings Committee, printed for H.M. Stationery Office, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
WAR SAVINGS will make your dreams come true W.F.P. 319. Issued by The National Savings Committee, London; The Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Howitt & Son Ltd., Nottingham. 51-3982
