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title: Big Things From Little Ideas Grow
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/big-things-from-little-ideas-grow-1941/
description: Poster with a large portrait photograph of Thomas Alva Edison under the headline 'Big things from little ideas grow'.
section: Collection
---

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# Big Things From Little Ideas Grow

Poster with a large portrait photograph of Thomas Alva Edison under the headline 'Big things from little ideas grow', with 'SPEED VICTORY / Let's have your ideas' in a grey band below. Transfer: Edison's prestige as an inventor is attached to the request for workers' suggestions. Glittering-generalities: 'Speed Victory'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BIG THINGS FROM LITTLE IDEAS GROW
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
America's greatest inventor
worked small ideas
into big ones
SPEED VICTORY
Let's have your ideas
[imprint: WAR PRODUCTION BOARD / War Production Drive Headquarters / WASHINGTON D. C. A-20]
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, [illegible]]
```

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