Do the job HE left behind
Painted portrait of a woman in a red head wrap and blue work shirt drilling an aircraft part, a striped flag behind her. Headline: 'Do the job HE left behind'; base line: 'Apply U.S. Employment Service'. The 'HE' ties the factory task to an absent serviceman and the flag adds national feeling (transfer), asking women to take the place of men called to the forces.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Manpower Commission, U.S. Employment Service (artist R. G. Harris)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, Gender and suffrage
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-241 (NAID 513683).
Text on the object
Do the job HE left behind APPLY U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE [signature: R. G. Harris] [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office 1943—O—524493]
