The Victory Home: 
War Bonds--Children

Poster: Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!
Children were used in bond posters and ads to appeal to the protective instincts of adults. They were also the target of bond campaigns themselves, especially when savings stamps were introduced.
 
 
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Poster image is courtesy of the Northwestern University Library poster database .

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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.

New York, NY. Italian-American children buying stamps and bonds at Public School eight on King Street from mothers who volunteer to guard doorways and perform other duties in schools under the school defense aid program.
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New York, NY. Martinetti's daughter and granddaughter examining a bond the child received for Christmas.

Epping, ND. High school girls singing "Remember Pearl Harbor" at meeting of the women of the town to promote sale of defense bonds and stamps.
 

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Posters

These posters are in the Smithsonian Institution online exhibit of WWII posters, "Produce for Victory" .

Keep them safe

Don’t let anything happen to them
 

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

Don't let that shadow touch them

I gave a man

We can’t all go

Even a little can help a lot now

Back your future
 

These posters are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

To Have and To Hold - Buy War Bonds.

For Their Future Buy War Bonds

For Baby's Future Buy War Bonds, 1

For Baby's Future Buy War Bonds, 2

Buy War Bonds

What d' ya mean - you ain't gonna buy no bonds?


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

America at war, 1

America at war, 2

Hey gang, keep on licking war savings stamps

Thanks buddy

Help save lives with war savings


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Pamphlets

This pamphlet is in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Send them what it takes to win

Help equip GI Joe

Hey kids, you let me down

 
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