A Canadian Victory Bond appeal
I’m Making Bombs and Buying Bonds combines industrial labour with personal saving. Historica Canada’s teaching guide identifies the image in McGill Library’s Canadian War Poster Collection, reference WP2.B78.F7, and lists its artist as unknown. This is Canadian home-front material, rather than a U.S. Treasury poster.
The photographed worker gives the message a personal voice. Her tools and the munition establish what she makes; the headline presents buying bonds as an additional contribution. Work alone is not the end of the appeal.
Photography and persuasion
The close view and smile make the industrial setting approachable. Strong lettering supplies the instruction while the photograph gives it an apparently everyday spokesperson. We cannot identify the woman from the sources consulted, and the image should not be treated as her personal testimony without further evidence.
Compare this design with the American She’s a WOW. Both connect women with war production, but their national institutions, visual methods and precise messages differ. That comparison is a useful way to read Allied home-front posters without erasing the circumstances in which they were made.