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Hasten the homecoming - Buy Victory Bonds – Vintage Print

Hasten the homecoming - Buy Victory Bonds — vintage poster
Hasten the homecoming - Buy Victory Bonds. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Hasten the homecoming - Buy Victory Bonds, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This color poster makes a direct promise in its title: buying Victory Bonds would "hasten the homecoming" of servicemen overseas. Produced between 1943 and 1944, it belongs to the U.S. Treasury's war bond campaigns, which raised money for the war effort while giving ordinary Americans a way to take part. Posters like this one were displayed in shops, post offices, and factories, where they tied personal savings to the hope of ending the war sooner. The record does not name the designer, but the message shows how wartime advertising linked everyday purchases to the return of loved ones.

Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 73 x 51 cm.
Notes[between 1943 and 1944]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,087 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117668

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