Farmers join hands
Farm Security Administration sheet: photographs of a farmers' meeting with a speaker, men examining a bull and a farmer repairing a machine, plus a fan of cards (Repair Machinery, Neighborhood Meetings, Collect Scrap Metal, Buy Defense Stamps, Meet Food Goals, Save Material), with the Food for Freedom shield. The tell is bandwagon: 'Farmers join hands' presents joining neighbours as the normal course.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Security Administration
- 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, Farm Security Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-751 (NAID 514238).
Text on the object
FARMERS JOIN HANDS FOOD FOR FREEDOM Save Material Meet Food Goals Buy Defense Stamps Collect Scrap Metal Neighborhood Meetings Repair Machinery Farmers get together to talk over farm problems and make plans.. to start co-ops for joint use of equipment and pure-bred stock. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
