From mine to firing line: More production
Stylised illustration of miners at coal cars, workers loading shells, and soldiers firing a field gun, linked by a large red arrow, under 'from mine to firing line' and 'MORE PRODUCTION'. The technique is faint and mostly transfer: the miner's work is shown as one continuous chain with the gunner's.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters (artist signed Nomnast)
- 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
- Labor, 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)
War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-840 (NAID 514334).
Text on the object
from mine to firing line MORE PRODUCTION War Production Board War Production Drive Headquarters Washington, D. C. A-21 [signature: Nomnast (uncertain)] [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-488419
