Can You Do Farm Work?
Text handbill with a drawing of a smiling farmer in a wide-brimmed hat holding a pitchfork, headed 'Can You Do Farm Work?'. Underlined lines say farmers need help, that the farm placement man will say where, and that he charges nothing. The technique is faint here: a plain-spoken farmer figure speaking to workers in everyday terms (plain-folks).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Employment Service, Social Security Board, Federal Security Agency
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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. Employment Service, Social Security Board, Federal Security Agency. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-544 (NAID 514023).
Text on the object
CAN YOU DO FARM WORK ? Farmers need help • We can tell you which farmers need help now • Don't waste your time and money traveling around looking for a job • Our farm placement man can tell you where to find one • He won't charge you anything. YOU CAN FIND HIM AT . . . U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Social Security Board Federal Security Agency [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-461288] E. S. 94 [handwritten pencil note at top, illegible]
