Jenny on the job: wears styles designed for Victory
Illustrated sheet of a smiling young woman in a blue cap, jumpsuit and goggles pulling on white gloves, headed 'Jenny on the job'. The slogan 'Wears styles designed for Victory' attaches the war aim to a work outfit (transfer), and a first-name everywoman stands in for the female war worker (plain-folks).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service (artist Kula)
- 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, Labor, Gender and suffrage
- 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)
Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1141H (NAID 514684).
Text on the object
Jenny on the job Wears styles designed for Victory WH 10 Federal Security Agency U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-529858 [signature:] Kula
