Your War Savings Pledge: Our Boys Make Good Their Pledge, Are You Keeping Yours?
Uncle Sam stands between a uniformed soldier with a raised hand and a civilian holding a W.S.S. pledge card, an arm around each. The text asks whether the civilian is keeping a pledge as the soldiers have kept theirs. The tell is the matched pair: the soldier's oath is set beside the buyer's stamp pledge, so saving is framed as a share in what 'our boys' are already doing.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (War Savings Stamps campaign)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Government (War Savings Stamps campaign). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-181.
Text on the object
Your War Savings Pledge Our boys make good their pledge Are you keeping yours? [label] W.S.S. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT [on the paper held by the civilian: W.S.S.]
The label text at lower left is small and partly obscured by glare; it is read as above and matches NARA's title.
