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title: '"Are You Helping? With Salvage" (WPA, southern California, 1941-1943)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/are-you-helping-with-salvage-wpa-1941/
description: A wide strip poster shows seaplanes over a burst of flame and a welder at work, with the question 'Are you helping? with salvage'.
section: Collection
---

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[!["Are You Helping? With Salvage", 1941 US poster: A wide strip poster shows seaplanes over a burst of flame and a welder](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-helping-with-salvage-wpa-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-helping-with-salvage-wpa-1941.jpg)

# "Are You Helping? With Salvage" (WPA, southern California, 1941-1943)

A wide strip poster shows seaplanes over a burst of flame and a welder at work, with the question 'Are you helping? with salvage'. The tell: the question assumes everyone else already is.

A wide strip poster from the Work Projects Administration in southern California, dated between 1941 and 1943, shows seaplanes over a burst of flame and a welder at work. It asks "ARE YOU HELPING? WITH SALVAGE" and aims to mobilize people on the U.S. home front. The tag is bandwagon: the question assumes that others are already helping, so the reader is nudged to join a presumed majority.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

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

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

```
ARE YOU HELPING?
WITH
SALVAGE
```

Small print along the lower edge is not read here.

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