God bless America
Cartoon: a grinning overalls-clad worker plays a pipe organ built from a factory marked 'Defense Production', its stacks pouring flame and smoke. Text warns it will be 'God help America' if the organ breaks down and calls the worker a 'Production soldier'. The warning of failure is the fear-appeal; the patriotic slogan carries the praise.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Cyrus C. Hungerford, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Individual
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, 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)
Cyrus C. Hungerford, Pittsburgh, Pa.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-903 (NAID 514408).
Text on the object
GOD BLESS AMERICA DEFENSE PRODUCTION And it will be "GOD HELP AMERICA" if the organ BREAKS DOWN!! You are a PRODUCTION SOLDIER... America's First Line of Defense is HERE [signature:] Hungerford [imprint:] Copyright 1941, Cyrus C. Hungerford, Pittsburgh, Pa.
