Victory Loan: Buy your extra bonds here
Bond-sales poster: a red, white and blue torch with laurel branches and a 'Victory Loan' banner above the line 'Buy your extra bonds - here'. The torch and laurel stand for victory and honour without any stated fact, and the wording presents purchase as the expected act at the point of sale. The poster carries no figures or argument.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Treasury Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-83 (NAID 513544).
Text on the object
VICTORY LOAN BUY YOUR EXTRA BONDS - HERE OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER [imprint: small print at lower left and a code at lower right, illegible]
