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title: Keep 'em Rolling! (Ships)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-em-rolling-ships-1941/
description: Photomontage of four smiling welders with helmets pushed up and cable coils over their arms in a blue field, with a column of five patrol torpedo boats
section: Collection
---

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# Keep 'em Rolling! (Ships)

Photomontage of four smiling welders with helmets pushed up and cable coils over their arms in a blue field, with a column of five patrol torpedo boats racing across red-and-white flag stripes and the slogan 'Keep 'em Rolling!'. The ordinary working men set in the flag's canton and the boats across its stripes link shipyard work to the nation and its navy (transfer, plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
KEEP 'EM ROLLING!
DIVISION OF INFORMATION
OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C.
[signature:] Lionni '41
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941
```

[← Keep 'em Rolling! (Planes)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-em-rolling-planes-1941/) [Keep 'em Rolling! (Tanks) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-em-rolling-tanks-1941/)

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