Cross Out Slums
Housing-program poster: a large white X is drawn across a photograph of weathered wooden shacks, while a brush marked USHA paints in a photograph of a tidy two-storey housing block above it. The before-and-after pairing is the tell: only the program's best outcome is shown, with no cost, tenants or alternatives.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Housing Authority (USHA), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office (artist signature: Beall)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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. Housing Authority (USHA). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-88 (NAID 513549).
Text on the object
Cross Out Slums USHA [signature: BEALL] [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1941]
