Ideas for Victory
Workplace suggestion-program sheet: a large red dollar sign over a scatter of overlapping 'Ideas for Victory - Suggestion Blank' forms. The technique is faint here; the poster pairs the dollar sign with the blank forms and mentions no other consequence of submitting.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Department, Army Service Forces (ASF Suggestion Poster No. 8)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- 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)
War Department, Army Service Forces. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1045 (NAID 514571).
Text on the object
WAR DEPARTMENT Office Ideas for Victory--Suggestion Blank INSTRUCTIONS: Complete all information requested. Give full details of your suggestion. Give results you believe will be accomplished. Do not fill in space for Suggestion Number. Place in suggestion box or mail to chairman, local committee for suggestions. SUGGESTION NO. NAME Last First Initial ADDRESS DATE DIVISION BUILDING ROOM NO. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The use by the United States of my suggestion concerning [partly hidden] shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States, by me, my heirs, [partly hidden] application for patent in any way related to the suggestion has not been made. Signature (This portion of the form will be removed by the secretary before the committee for suggestions considers your idea.) DESCRIPTION OF SUGGESTION, DEVICE OR INVENTION [additional space is required for your writeup or sketch, use reverse side of additional sheets.] [form text repeated and partly hidden across the overlapping forms] WAR DEPARTMENT Office of the Secretary of War DISTRIBUTION: For each 50 civilian employees of ASF (1); Installations and offices with less than 50 civilian employees of ASF (1). [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945--O--628866 ASF Suggestion Poster No. 8.
