Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
"Fire Away 5th War Loan" World War II Bonds/Loan Poster, 1944 |
Object Name |
Poster |
Scope & Content |
"Fire Away 5th War Loan" World War II Bonds/Loan Poster, 1944. 40 x 28 color poster with a full-poster illustration of two US Navy soldiers above a birds-eye view of the bow of a submarine. The soldier in the bottom right looks through a pair of binoculars; the soldier in the center left aims what looks like a large lighthouse beacon toward the viewer's right. A thick beam of yellow light extends from it and inside this beam, in large red letters, is written "FIRE AWAY!" Aside from this beam the illustration is done in dark shades of blue, green, and gray. Large white print at the bottom reads "BUY EXTRA BONDS". Above "BUY" is a square red and white logo for "5th V WAR / LOAN", with a soldier in silhouette inside the large V. Fine print at the bottom reads "U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944--O-581636" and "WFD 908-B". |
Date |
1944 |
Creator |
United States War Production Board |
Catalog Number |
1982.166.002 |
Extent of Description |
1-Poster 40 x 28 |
Collection |
Archival Collection |
Notes |
"War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. In practice, modern governments finance war by putting additional money into circulation, and the function of the bonds is to remove money from circulation and help to control inflation." During WWII, American advertising campaigns for war bonds were extremely widespread, and "over the course of the war 85 million Americans purchased bonds totalling approximately $185 billion." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_bond#United_States_2 03/05/2018] |
Search Terms |
Advertising Poster Posters War World War II World War Two |
Subjects |
Advertisements Posters War War bonds & funds War posters World War II |
Credit line |
SMCHA Collection |