Don't let me down! You are still free to work!
Illustrated labour-output poster: a haggard, unshaven man in a torn shirt stands behind two strands of barbed wire against a red-orange sky, under the quoted words 'Don't let me down!' and 'You are still free to work!'. The contrast between wire and freedom to work is the fear-appeal; the quoted speech makes the pictured man the speaker.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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)
Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-676 (NAID 514155).
Text on the object
"DON'T LET ME DOWN!" "You Are Still Free to Work!" [signature:] PACKER [imprint:] PRINTED IN U.S.A. [imprint:] Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
