Buy US defense bonds Take a Punch at Hitler game
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English
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Toys
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Games
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Gameboards (lcsh)
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael Zentman in memory of his grandparents, Max (Mordechai) and Johanna (Chana) Zentmann
Punch card game encouraging people to buy US Defense bonds and stamps. The United States Treasury Department sponsored 8 war loan drives from 1942 to 1945. The public could purchase a $25 war bond for $18.75 to help pay for the military’s expenses. The war bond could be redeemed 10 years after purchase for the full $25. If you could not afford a war bond, you could buy a war stamps, starting at 10 cents, which could be saved to purchase a bond. Bond quotas were set up on the national, state, county, and town levels to encourage the sale of war bonds. Volunteers went door-to-door to sell war bonds. It was considered a patriotic duty and an investment in victory. By the end of the war, 85 million Americans had purchased $185.7 billion dollars worth of bonds.
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Record last modified: 2018-01-11 14:22:07
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Also in Michael D. Zentman collection
The collection consists of American anti-Hitler, anti-Axis, and anti-Stalin propaganda materials, including pins, postcards, toys, advertisements, envelope, and other ephemera.