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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (farm scrap metal campaign)
- 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, War and the military
- 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. Government. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-749 (NAID 514236).
Text on the object
FARM SCRAP BUILDS DESTROYERS 900 tons of Scrap Metal goes into a Destroyer [imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—466793]
