---
title: 'Help harvest war crops: join the U.S. Crop Corps'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/help-harvest-war-crops-crop-corps-1943/
description: 'Typographic farm-labor recruiting poster: ''Help'' in red brush letters over ''Harvest War Crops'' in blue, with a red band at the foot reading ''Join the U.S.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Help harvest war crops: join the U.S. Crop Corps, 1943 US poster: Typographic farm-labor recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-harvest-war-crops-crop-corps-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/help-harvest-war-crops-crop-corps-1943.jpg)

# Help harvest war crops: join the U.S. Crop Corps

Typographic farm-labor recruiting poster: 'Help' in red brush letters over 'Harvest War Crops' in blue, with a red band at the foot reading 'Join the U.S. Crop Corps' and the Crop Corps emblem. There is no picture; the technique is faint here, and the label 'war crops' attaches the war effort to farm work.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HELP
HARVEST
WAR CROPS
JOIN THE U.S. CROP CORPS
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—546586
```

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