Apprentice Seaman Training
Recruiting poster for the U.S. Maritime Service: a white merchant steamer under a pink sunset sky, with the headline 'Apprentice Seaman Training' and an offer of a career in the American Merchant Marine for young men. The appeal rests on a calm, heroic ship image and the word 'career', with no danger shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Maritime Service (artwork signed John D. Wisinsky)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, 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)
U.S. Maritime Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-415 (NAID 513874).
Text on the object
Apprentice Seaman Training U. S. MARITIME SERVICE ENROLLING OFFICE 1311 H STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. PREPARES YOUNG MEN 18 TO [35, pasted slip over printed number] FOR A CAREER in the AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE apply to UNITED STATES MARITIME SERVICE, Washington, D. C. 1311 H Street, N.W. [handwritten] [signature: JOHN D. WISINSKY] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941]
