No caption (photograph of a boy and a girl)
Photographic sheet with no headline: a small girl in a headscarf holds a tin mug, and a barefoot boy in a worn jacket leans on a door beside her, in a stone street. The only print is a Government Printing Office imprint. The technique is faint here; the closest honest label is an emotional appeal, since the image of hungry-looking children carries the message without words.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. government (issuer not printed; Government Printing Office imprint)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- Event
- World War II
- 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 Printing Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1409 (NAID 515073).
Text on the object
[imprint:] ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946—O-701602 No. 1
Only a printed imprint appears; the photograph carries no caption.
