America will be as strong as her women
Charcoal-style drawing of a woman in profile, seen from behind, holding a smiling toddler in a bow, under the headline 'America will be as strong as her women'. The sheet carries no instruction or figure; it ties national strength to women through an abstract claim (glittering generalities) and an image of motherhood, with the technique faint here.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor (artist C. LeRoy Baldridge)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Gender and suffrage, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-237 (NAID 513680).
Text on the object
America will be as strong as her women [signature: C. LeRoy Baldridge] Women's Bureau U.S. Dept. of Labor [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, 14-[illegible]]
