--- title: Farm scrap builds destroyers url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/farm-scrap-builds-destroyers-1942/ description: 'Scrap-drive sheet: a large photograph of a destroyer, hull number 117, under the headline ''Farm scrap builds destroyers''.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Farm scrap builds destroyers [![Farm scrap builds destroyers, 1942 US poster: Scrap-drive sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/farm-scrap-builds-destroyers-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/farm-scrap-builds-destroyers-1942.jpg) # Farm scrap builds destroyers Scrap-drive sheet: a large photograph of a destroyer, hull number 117, under the headline 'Farm scrap builds destroyers', with the figure '900 tons of Scrap Metal goes into a Destroyer'. The tell is the single figure: a pile of farm scrap is linked directly to a warship, with no other costs or sources of steel stated. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` FARM SCRAP BUILDS DESTROYERS 900 tons of Scrap Metal goes into a Destroyer [imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—466793] ``` [← Extent of participation in payroll savings plans for War Savings Bonds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/extent-of-participation-payroll-savings-plans-1942/) [Farm scrap builds tanks and guns →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/farm-scrap-builds-tanks-and-guns-1942/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)