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title: 'Keep the Home Fires Burning: More Production!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-the-home-fires-burning-more-production-1942/
description: Yellow-toned photograph of a shirtless, goggled worker shovelling at a furnace, sparks flying, under the headline 'Keep the home fires burning'
section: Collection
---

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# Keep the Home Fires Burning: More Production!

Yellow-toned photograph of a shirtless, goggled worker shovelling at a furnace, sparks flying, under the headline 'Keep the home fires burning' and the slogan 'More Production!'. The old song phrase 'home fires burning' is attached to factory output, borrowing its sentiment for the production drive (transfer, glittering-generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Keep the home fires burning
MORE PRODUCTION!
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C.   A-10
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—466107
```

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