By Voting! (Help Build Your Country Too)
A Philippine voter-registration poster showing a bricklaying labourer above a hand dropping a ballot. 'The laborer is a builder' casts an ordinary working man as the model citizen, and 'help build your country' attaches a large virtue word to the act of voting. The sheet is practical as well as rhetorical: it prints the registration dates and polling day.
- Date
- October 10, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters (Philippines), in the U.S. State Department Asian poster series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Techniques
- Plain folksGlittering generalities
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NAID 5729924); image copy via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729924). Item page: Use Restriction Unrestricted.
Text on the object
REGISTER SEPT. 28-29 OCT. 5-6-12-13 THE LABORER IS A BUILDER HELP BUILD YOUR COUNTRY TOO... BALLOT BOX BY VOTING ! VOTE NOV. 13 Published by the National Movement for Free Elections and League of Women Voters
Imprint printed in small type at lower right.
