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title: Be proud you're delivering!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-proud-youre-delivering-1941/
description: Black-and-white photograph taken from a ship's deck, with a ship's bell and rigging in dark foreground and a four-funnel liner on the horizon.
section: Collection
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[![Be proud you're delivering!, 1941 US poster: Black-and-white photograph taken from a ship's deck, with a ship's bell](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/be-proud-youre-delivering-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/be-proud-youre-delivering-1941.jpg)

# Be proud you're delivering!

Black-and-white photograph taken from a ship's deck, with a ship's bell and rigging in dark foreground and a four-funnel liner on the horizon, under red script reading 'Be proud you're delivering!' and '"it ALL depends on ME"'. The technique is pride and personal responsibility: the first-person line asks each worker to see their own task as the whole delivery.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Be Proud
You're Delivering!
"it ALL
depends on
ME"
[imprint: (c) Illinois Photo-Gravure Co.
International News Service
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS]
```

[← Be doubly alert crossing at night](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-doubly-alert-crossing-at-night-aaa/) [Be silent: the enemy is listening (Douglas War Production Drive cartoon sheet) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-silent-douglas-war-production-drive-morehouse/)

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