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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (artist Adolph Treidler)
- 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, 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. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-620 (NAID 514098).
Text on the object
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]
