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title: Are You Missing from This Picture? Teamwork Wins
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/are-you-missing-from-this-picture-1943/
description: 'Shipyard recruiting poster: workers in hard hats walk toward a crane between two ships, with one white outline figure left blank among them.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Are You Missing from This Picture? Teamwork Wins, 1943 US poster: Shipyard recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-missing-from-this-picture-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-missing-from-this-picture-1943.jpg)

# Are You Missing from This Picture? Teamwork Wins

Shipyard recruiting poster: workers in hard hats walk toward a crane between two ships, with one white outline figure left blank among them. The headline 'Are YOU missing from this picture?' and 'Teamwork wins' invite the viewer to fill the gap and join the group (bandwagon), with the Ships for Victory emblem at lower right.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Are YOU missing
from this picture?
TEAMWORK WINS
UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION
SHIPS FOR VICTORY
[signature: NORMAN KENYON]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1943--O--545476]
[imprint: Additional copies may be obtained from the Division of Public Relations, U.S. Maritime Commission, Washington, D.C.]
```

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