The Victory Home: 
War Bonds--Workers


Poster:  Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!
Workers (and others) were expected to buy war bonds. Various means were used to encourage, entice, and sometimes even coerce them to do so.
 
 
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Updated 11/12/04.
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Dr. Suess Went to War
 

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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore, MD. Worker with a war bond.

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman who provides for a family of six on her salary of one thousand eighty dollars per year. She puts ten percent of her salary in war bonds.
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Decatur, AL. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. War bonds come in the pay envelopes of the workers.
 

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Posters
 

This poster is in the Smithsonian Institution online exhibit of WWII posters, "Produce for Victory" .

Keep us flying (Tuskegee airman)
 

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.   Click on the small image to see a larger one.

This is my fight too

Peace on earth

Lets fly this flag

Help him, help yourself

For defense

Share in America, 1

Share in America, 2

Give war bonds

For freedom’s sake

You buy em, we’ll fly em

Buy war bonds

Aim to win

Wanted fighting dollars

Let’s hit the bull's eye

To have and to hold

You can’t afford to miss either

Doing all you can?
 

These posters are in the American Memory collection By the People, For the People:  Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 Click on the small image to see a larger one.

He gives 100%, you can lend 10% : Buy war stamps & bonds

War bonds over 90% : N.O.P.E.

Stamp 'em out : Buy U.S. stamps and bonds

If you can't go - buy war bonds
 

These posters are in the Minneapolis Public Library's Posters of the Second World War collection.

Care is costly

85 million Americans

Back 'em up

Attack attack attack

Use a payday during the war

Keep him flying

Fire away

Nest eggs won't hatch

Remember me?

Your war bonds are a stake in the future

Till we meet again

Buy that invasion bond

Next!

The sky's the limit

More tomahawks

Lexington 1775

Independence July 1776

Washington crossed the Delaware

John Paul Jones said

Leap, don't lag

Quit bellyaching

Petty squabbles are taboo

Hell threatens

Toughen up

Be tolerant

Spike that rumor

Be mum


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Pamphlets

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This pamphlet is in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

War bond plays
 

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Audio and Video

Many audio clips require audio player software plug-ins.

Click for a free download of  RealPlayer (the free "basic" version is in the upper corner on the far right) or Windows Media Player  or WinAmp .

Any bonds today? (Scroll down to find the audio)
 

You'll need to download the RealPlayer (the free "basic" version is in the upper corner on the far right) or the QuickTime software to view this video material.

This video is in the collection of Internet Moving Pictures Archive (at archive.org). To view, under "Stream", click "Real" for the RealPlayer version or "QT" for the QuickTime version.

Avenge December 7 (Pearl Harbor)

Mr. and Mrs. America
 
Remember These Faces
 
My Japan
 

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Ads

These ads are in the Ad*Access collection of Duke University.

Listings for ads for war bonds

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