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title: Join us on the Farm Front!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-us-on-the-farm-front-1944/
description: Black-and-white photograph of a smiling teenage boy with a hoe and straw hat and a smiling girl in a checked shirt.
section: Collection
---

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[![Join us on the Farm Front!, 1944 US poster: Black-and-white photograph of a smiling teenage boy with a hoe and straw hat](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-us-on-the-farm-front-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-us-on-the-farm-front-1944.jpg)

# Join us on the Farm Front!

Black-and-white photograph of a smiling teenage boy with a hoe and straw hat and a smiling girl in a checked shirt, set on a blue ground under the headline 'Join us on the Farm Front!'. The tells are ordinary young people shown as the volunteers (plain-folks) and the 'join us' invitation to a group already at work (bandwagon).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Join us on the Farm Front!
BE A VICTORY FARM VOLUNTEER
OF THE U.S. CROP CORPS
[logo:] VFV
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944—O-560439
```

[← Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-us-cadet-nurse-corps-5416-opportunities-1944/) [Just in case: nurses are needed now for service in the Army Nurse Corps →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/just-in-case-army-nurse-corps-1944/)

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