Harvest legume & grass seed
Farm-production poster: a smiling farmer in overalls and straw hat shoulders a full seed sack on a grassy hillside beneath the headline 'Harvest legume & grass seed'. The slogan 'For your use and the nation's need' joins the farmer's own benefit to the national one (transfer), with an everyday working figure (plain-folks).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government agricultural campaign (artist Bishop)
- 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, 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)
U.S. government. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-933 (NAID 514439).
Text on the object
HARVEST LEGUME & GRASS SEED [signature: BISHOP] FOR YOUR USE AND THE NATION'S NEED [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-594698]
