Fill it! Help harvest war crops
Farm-labor recruiting poster: two giant hands tilt an empty wooden basket over a field where small figures in straw hats pick crops among rows of baskets, under the red headline 'Fill it!'. The technique is mild; ordinary volunteers in a farm scene present the harvest task as common work, and the oversized basket makes the ask the focus.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Food Administration, distributed by the Office of War Information; artist Steven Dohanos
- 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, 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)
War Food Administration, distributed by the Office of War Information; artist Steven Dohanos. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-767 (NAID 514255).
Text on the object
FILL IT! HELP HARVEST WAR CROPS SEE YOUR COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT OR LOCAL FARM EMPLOYMENT OFFICE DISTRIBUTED BY OWI FOR WFA [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945 O—637278 WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION [signature:] Steven Dohanos
