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[Eagle Commons Library handouts]

Description: Photograph of Bobby Griffith, the UNT Government Information Reference Specialist, holding up an Abraham Lincoln mask the Eagle Commons Library display table at the Dallas Heritage Village Pavilion for the DFW Archives Bazaar. There is a "War Bonds" advertisement poster on a tripod behind him that features american children playing and a swastika shadow around them. It reads "Don't Let That Shadow Touch Them Buy WAR BONDS".
Date: October 14, 2018
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The sky's the limit! : keep buying war bonds.

Description: Color poster of a female mechanic and two male mechanics maintaining or building an airplane. Other military airplanes can be seen on the ground in the background. A "6th War Loan" seal in the upper right corner of the poster depicts a bomb about to strike a Japanese flag.
Date: 1944
Creator: Allen, Courtney, 1896-1969
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Let's all fight : buy war bonds.

Description: In the foregound is a large color image of a soldier lunging forward with rifle bayonet. In the background are small black & white images of people working in various industries, and a building with smokestacks.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. Department of the Treasury.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Help him ... help yourself ... : for victory, at least 10% of your pay every payday.

Description: Color poster features black and white photographs, with large arrows containing captions pointing to each photo. The captions explain the benefits of war bonds. One photograph is of a soldier in a combat uniform, holding a rifle. The other photograph is of a man in a work shirt, doing mechanical work.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

"This is my fight too!" : put at least 10% every payday in war bonds.

Description: The poster image is a black & white photograph. A a woman smiles, holding and looking at folded $25 war bonds and an envelope. Her dark hair is coiffed and she wears a work uniform with a "10%" slogan button on her pocket. In the background is a "paymaster" window and a "10%" slogan sign on the wall.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. War Savings Staff.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

85 million Americans hold war bonds.

Description: A color image of a man's hand clenching war bonds, as the Statue of Liberty's hand holds its torch above, against a starry night sky. The man's hold on the bonds mimics the statue's hold on the torch.
Date: 1945
Creator: United States. Dept. of the Treasury.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

For freedom's sake : buy war bonds.

Description: Small color poster promoting war bonds. In the foreground is an image of the Concord Minute Man statue (a sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Concord, Massachusetts). In the background is a town landscape.
Date: 1943
Creator: Atherton, John, 1900-1952
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

For freedom's sake: buy war bonds.

Description: Color poster promoting war bonds. In the foreground is an image of the Concord Minute Man statue (a sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Concord, Massachusetts). In the background is a town landscape.
Date: 1943
Creator: Atherton, John, 1900-1952
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[1944 War bonds advertisement]

Description: Photograph of a woman's hands resting on a map of Germany. Her left hand is holding a $100 war bond from July 1944 and her other hand is holding a magnifying glass held over the city of Berlin.
Date: 1944
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Statue advertising victory loans]

Description: Photograph of a large statue commemorating victory loans. At the base of the statue is an inscription that reads, "God give us the courage that made those heroes die and leave our children free". Several flagpoles with American flags encircle the statue.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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