Farmers! Uncle Sam asks you to get ready for the census taker
Census notice: Uncle Sam in a star-spangled vest, smiling and writing in a ledger, with rows of tractors and crops behind him, asks farmers to prepare for the census taker in January. The tell is transfer of the Uncle Sam figure's authority to a routine government survey; a closing line states that the reports are confidential.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Census Bureau (artist Jerome Rozen)
- 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. Census Bureau. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-752 (NAID 514239).
Text on the object
FARMERS! Uncle Sam asks you... to get ready for the census taker In January the U.S. Census Bureau will ask you about 1944 crops-amount-value-acres-livestock-tractors-labor hired and tenure THE LAW REQUIRING YOUR REPORTS MAKES THEM CONFIDENTIAL [signature: JEROME [partly illegible]] [imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—615702]
