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title: Cut Low Stumps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cut-low-stumps-forest-service-1945/
description: 'Wood-cutting poster: two men in work clothes and hats saw through a large pine at its base while a third saws a log in the background.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Cut Low Stumps, 1945 US poster: Wood-cutting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cut-low-stumps-forest-service-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cut-low-stumps-forest-service-1945.jpg)

# Cut Low Stumps

Wood-cutting poster: two men in work clothes and hats saw through a large pine at its base while a third saws a log in the background, with stacked firewood behind them. The caption offers a profit motive. The technique is faint: plain-folks, in the ordinary working men shown doing the task.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CUT LOW STUMPS-
And Work to a Small Top-There's Profit in Both Ends
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[signature: Adolph Treidler]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1945 O-647209]
```

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