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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Maritime Commission (artwork signed Norman Kenyon)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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 Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-420 (NAID 513879).
Text on the object
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.]
