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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, 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. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-444 (NAID 513912).
Text on the object
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
