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title: Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-a-victory-farm-volunteer-1943/
description: 'Farm-labour recruiting sheet for schoolchildren: two large smiling young faces, a girl and a boy, are set over a photomontage of young people picking'
section: Collection
---

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[![Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps, 1943 US poster: Farm-labour recruiting sheet for schoolchildren](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/be-a-victory-farm-volunteer-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/be-a-victory-farm-volunteer-1943.jpg)

# Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps

Farm-labour recruiting sheet for schoolchildren: two large smiling young faces, a girl and a boy, are set over a photomontage of young people picking potatoes into barrels, with a horse team behind. Yellow type tells students to see their principal. The technique is plain-folks: ordinary, cheerful teenagers show that the work is within anyone's reach; the Crop Corps name transfers wartime service status to farm work.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Be a VICTORY FARM VOLUNTEER
IN THE U.S. CROP CORPS
SEE YOUR PRINCIPAL
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-517942
[imprint:] U. S. Department of Agriculture
```

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