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title: 'Appreciate America: In unity there is strength'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/appreciate-america-in-unity-there-is-strength-1941/
description: 'Poster in red, white and blue: Uncle Sam in the centre rests a hand on the shoulder of a shirtless worker with a sledgehammer and of a businessman'
section: Collection
---

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# Appreciate America: In unity there is strength

Poster in red, white and blue: Uncle Sam in the centre rests a hand on the shoulder of a shirtless worker with a sledgehammer and of a businessman in a suit holding papers, with factories, a ship, trains and a plane below and the arched line 'In unity there is strength'. The tell is identity-fusion and glittering generalities: labor, management and the nation are shown as one body.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
APPRECIATE ★
AMERICA
IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH
RED FOR COURAGE
WHITE FOR HONOR
BLUE FOR JUSTICE
[imprint: COPYRIGHT, 1941, APPRECIATE AMERICA INC., 130 NO. WELLS ST., CHICAGO, ILL.]
[signature: illegible initial at lower right]
```

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