Help me keep prices down
Home-front price-control poster: an Uncle Sam figure points toward the viewer beneath the headline 'Help me keep prices down', with two bullet requests (pay no more than ceiling prices; volunteer for Price Panel work). The national symbol lends authority to the request, and the text calls the Price Panel 'friendly, neighborly'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Price Administration (distributed by Office of War Information)
- 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)
Office of Price Administration (distributed by Office of War Information). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-361 (NAID 513811).
Text on the object
HELP ME KEEP PRICES DOWN • Pay no more than Ceiling Prices • Volunteer for Price Panel work The Price Panel is the friendly, neighborly way to help retailers observe price ceilings. We need your spare time. See phone book—"War Price and Rationing Board" or "U.S. Govt." DISTRIBUTED BY OWI FOR OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—587005 [signature:] [illegible]
