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title: 'In your hands: our homes, our country, our freedom. Work, fight, give to keep them safe'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-your-hands-putnam-county-defense-council-1941/
description: 'Black-and-white block-print style poster: a large open hand holds a small house, a church and the Statue of Liberty, with ''In YOUR HANDS'' arched above.'
section: Collection
---

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[![In your hands: our homes, our country, our freedom. Work, fight, give to keep them safe, 1941 US poster: Black-and-white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/in-your-hands-putnam-county-defense-council-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/in-your-hands-putnam-county-defense-council-1941.jpg)

# In your hands: our homes, our country, our freedom. Work, fight, give to keep them safe

Black-and-white block-print style poster: a large open hand holds a small house, a church and the Statue of Liberty, with 'In YOUR HANDS' arched above. Below are the words 'Work, Fight, Give'. The technique is glittering generalities (homes, country, freedom) with transfer, the national symbols placed in the reader's hand.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
In
YOUR HANDS
OUR HOMES, OUR COUNTRY, OUR FREEDOM
WORK • FIGHT • GIVE
TO KEEP THEM SAFE
[signature: illegible, top right]
[imprint: Sponsored by Putnam County Defense Council, Carmel, New York]
```

[← In war as in peace - this country is no stronger than our individual loyalty to it](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-war-as-in-peace-individual-loyalty-1941/) [Insurance bridges the gap in your financial security →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/insurance-bridges-the-gap-financial-security-1941/)

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