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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management (artist Lionni)
- 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, War and the military
- 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)
Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management (artist Lionni). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1180 (NAID 514778).
Text on the object
KEEP 'EM ROLLING! DIVISION OF INFORMATION OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C. [signature:] Lionni '41 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941
