OPA ceiling prices: Don't be overcharged
Photomontage poster on red: a woman in profile, cut out in grey halftone, looks down at a sheet headed 'OPA Ceiling Prices', with 'DON'T be overcharged' on a black diagonal band. The technique is faint: a mild fear-appeal of paying too much, with the stern gaze directing the viewer to check the posted price list.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Office of Price Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- US Postwar Price Control
- 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)
Office of Price Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1467 (NAID 515131).
Text on the object
OPA CEILING PRICES DON'T be overcharged [imprint:] UNITED STATES OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION • INF-P 3097 (9-46) [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946—O—716067
