Content note: Bowling pins drawn as caricatured Axis leaders, including a Japanese caricature with round glasses and buck teeth. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Bowl them over: more production
Production poster: a black bowling ball marked 'MORE PRODUCTION' strikes three wooden pins drawn with the faces of Axis leaders, one with a toothbrush moustache and side-swept hair, one scowling, one with round glasses and buck teeth. The pins are labelled by caricature rather than by name, so the technique is name-calling by ridicule, tied to a call for output.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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)
War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-501 (NAID 513981).
Text on the object
BOWL THEM OVER MORE PRODUCTION [imprint: WAR PRODUCTION BOARD, WASHINGTON, D.C. A-16] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-469851]
