US victory bonds poster depicting a bald eagle on a stack of bonds
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 25.875 inches (65.723 cm) | Width: 18.500 inches (46.99 cm)
Creator(s)
- United States Government Printing Office (Distributor)
- Dean Cornwell (Artist)
- United States Treasury Department War Finance Division (Issuer)
Archival History
The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by David and Zelda Silberman.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David and Zelda Silberman
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Victory loan poster with a bald eagle on a stack of bonds on field of stars and stripes issued near the end of the war encouraging people to invest buy war bonds as an investment. The US entered the war in December 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Office of War Information (OWI) was set up in June 1942 to control the message and imagery of government information about the war. The public could purchase a $25 war bond for $18.75 which would help pay for the cost of the war. The bond could be redeemed 10 years after purchase for the full $25. The war in Europe ended May 8 and the war in Japan on September 2.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Color offset lithograph poster with an image of a large bald eagle with its wings extended upward, perched on a stack of bond bills, with a rolled up bill with the denomination 200. The background has 3 large diagonal red, white, and blue stripes overlaid by a shower of blue and yellow stars. The slogan is in white at the top and across the bottom of the poster.
People
- Cornwell, Dean, 1892-1960.
Subjects
- Savings bonds--United States--Posters--Specimens.
- World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States--Posters--Specimens.
- World War, 1939-1945--Posters--Specimens.
- World War, 1939-1945--Finance--United States--Posters--Specimens.
- War posters, American.
Genre
- Object
- Posters