Your community can work for low-cost ways of selling needed foods
Photograph of a vendor handing goods to a woman at crates of jars, a man with a paper bag beside her, under a headline asking the community to work for low-cost food sales. The technique is plain-folks: ordinary shoppers of mixed backgrounds. Poster No. 12 of 13.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government, Make America Strong poster set (issuing agency not printed)
- 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
- Health, Economy and finance, Home front
- 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. Government, Make America Strong poster set (issuing agency not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1313B (NAID 514941).
Text on the object
YOUR COMMUNITY can work for low-cost ways of selling needed foods U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941-O-292318 Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 12
