Content note: Contains comic caricatures of Axis leaders, including a swastika armband and an exaggerated-teeth, round-glasses face, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Give 'em the brush off!
A small figure rides a globe and sweeps with a broom labelled PRODUCTION, tumbling three caricatured Axis-style figures, one with a swastika armband, into the air. The enemy leaders are drawn as comic, grimacing figures (name-calling), and output is the broom (transfer). A Douglas War Production Drive badge sits at the right.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Douglas Aircraft, War Production Drive (artist Lee Morehouse)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military, 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)
Douglas Aircraft. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-877 (NAID 514382).
Text on the object
GIVE 'EM the BRUSH OFF! PRODUCTION DOUGLAS WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE AIRCRAFT [signature: LEE MOREHOUSE ILLUSTRATED PARTS CATALOG] E 100
