Let's finish the job! Urgent - experienced seamen needed!
Painted close-up of a weathered seaman in a knit cap and leather jacket gripping a ship's wheel, under a headline 'Let's finish the job!' and an urgent call for experienced seamen. The appeal rests on an ordinary working mariner and an unspecific 'job'; the sheet gives a wire-collect address to the Merchant Marine in Washington.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Merchant Marine, Washington, D.C. (artist Martha Sawyers)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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)
Merchant Marine, Washington, D.C.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1258 (NAID 514864).
Text on the object
Let's Finish the Job! URGENT- EXPERIENCED SEAMEN NEEDED! WIRE COLLECT: Merchant Marine • Washington, D.C. or inquire your Maritime Union or U. S. Employment Service [signature: Martha Sawyers]
