Women! Help America’s Sons Win the War
This poster was created in 1917 during the first world war by R. H. Porteous for the US government to help fund the fighting. This source is intended to persuade women to buy bonds and support the troops, by making the message personal to mothers, telling them to help their sons. The women in the forefront of the picture is meant to be a comforting and open person that makes the general public more inclined to trust what she is saying. When the war first started the US stayed neutral for almost 3 years until the Germans sunk a US ship and brought america into the fight. When the US officially declared war they needed the support and funding from not only the military aged men would would be fighting, but the women that they were leaving behind as well. This campaign by the US government to use propaganda posters to influence the american public was widely successful and lead way for similar techniques to be used throughout many different wars following.