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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Crop Corps (Victory Farm Volunteers)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- 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)
U.S. Crop Corps (Victory Farm Volunteers). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1155 (NAID 514751).
Text on the object
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
