# Hasten the Homecoming, a Victory Bonds sheet after Rockwell Hasten the Homecoming is a 1945 Victory Bonds poster reproduced from a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover painting. A soldier with a kit bag is greeted by neighbors in a city backyard. The issuer is not printed (NAID 514441). - Home - Archive - Hasten the Homecoming, a Victory Bonds sheet after Rockwell Hasten the Homecoming Hasten the Homecoming, a Victory Bonds sheet after Rockwell 1945 Victory Bonds poster from a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover. A soldier comes home to a tenement yard. Issuer not printed. NAID 514441. ## Techniques named on the archive record Plain folks Date1945Made byIssuer not printed (Victory Bonds poster, after Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post cover painting)MediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeRoosevelt AdministrationNARANAID 514441; Record Group 44SourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceU.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters , retrieved October 4, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. government work) Issuer not printed. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-935 (NAID 514441). Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records. Full record at propagandaarchive.org Hasten the Homecoming is a 1945 Victory Bonds poster reproduced from a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover painting. A soldier with a kit bag is greeted by neighbors in a city backyard. The issuer is not printed (NAID 514441). ## What the sheet prints A soldier stands in a backyard among brick tenements with his bag beside him. People lean from steps, windows, a tree, and a rooftop to wave. Service flags hang in some windows. The words are few. Hasten the Homecoming BUY VICTORY BONDS [imprint: FROM SATURDAY EVENING POST COVER PAINTING BY NORMAN ROCKWELL (small print, partly illegible)] Transcription in the FRAME record. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. NAID 514441, Record Group 44, local id 44-PA-935. ## Who issued it The record says the issuer is not printed. The small line credits the picture to a Norman Rockwell painting for a Saturday Evening Post cover. The archive classes the issuer type as mixed: a commercial magazine image reused for a government loan. The National Archives holds it in the Record Group 44 poster series. This page does not name the cover's issue date, which the record does not give. ## How to read it This is the war's end as a bond appeal. The fighting is not shown. The picture is the return, and the slogan says money can bring it sooner. The archive tags it plain folks. The yard is ordinary, the clothes are ordinary, and the welcome comes from a whole block. "Hasten" is the working word. The sheet does not show how a bond would shorten any particular man's service, and it does not claim a figure for how much sooner. It is a promise of a feeling, not a schedule. Read that way, it is a mild poster. It asks for a loan by showing what people wanted most. Nothing in it is false, and nothing in it is measured. Rockwell's best-known government work on this site is the Four Freedoms series, including Freedom of Speech. The Treasury's numbered drives of the same year include the 7th War Loan. The poster system as a whole is on the Office of War Information hub. ## Sources - FRAME object record, Hasten the Homecoming, 1945. Issuer not printed (Victory Bonds poster, after Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post cover painting). U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, NAID 514441, 44-PA-935, retrieved by the archive 4 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work). Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/hasten-the-homecoming-victory-bonds-1945/