Help harvest: join U.S. Crop Corps
Farm-labor recruiting poster: a man in a white T-shirt carrying a pitchfork walks across a field with a woman and a boy, a basket on the woman's arm, under the headline 'Help Harvest' and the line 'Join U.S. Crop Corps'. The technique is plain-folks: an ordinary family in work clothes presents harvest labor as common, cheerful work.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Food Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture; artist Chapman-Morley
- 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, 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)
War Food Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture; artist Chapman-Morley. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-956 (NAID 514462).
Text on the object
[signature:] CHAPMAN-MORLEY HELP HARVEST JOIN U.S. CROP CORPS Apply [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1943—O—538440 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION
