Content note: Illustration of a fox among bombed ruins, used to stand for foreign ideas. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Foxy: foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe
A fox leaps through bombed and ruined buildings above the headline 'Foxy' and the text 'foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe. Let's stick faithfully to our Americanism over here.' The tell is ruin imagery tied to 'foreign ideas' as a single cause, and the undefined positive term 'Americanism'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Think American Institute (Kelly-Read & Co., Rochester, N.Y.); artist C. R. Miller
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- 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)
Think American Institute (Kelly-Read & Co.). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-833 (NAID 514327).
Text on the object
FOXY foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe. Let's stick -faithfully- to our Americanism over here. [signature:] C R MILLER [imprint:] THINKAMERICAN REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. No. 148-COPYRIGHT,-KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y. THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE
