I'm proud of you folks too!
Navy war-production poster: a smiling sailor in dress blues shakes hands with a welder, while a woman in a headscarf and apron holding a wrench looks on, a lathe in the foreground, under the headline 'I'm proud of you folks too!'. The serviceman's praise turns factory work into a share of the fighting (transfer), in a general appeal to pride with no specific request.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Industrial Incentive Division (artist signature: Jon Whitcomb)
- 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, War and the military
- 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. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1082 (NAID 514609).
Text on the object
I'm proud of YOU FOLKS too! [signature:] [illegible, possibly Jon Whitcomb] [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-577557 OFFICIAL NAVY POSTER, INDUSTRIAL INCENTIVE DIVISION, 6-80M
