Our ceiling price list: we post 'em, you check 'em
Horizontal store banner in red, white and navy: 'Our ceiling price list', 'We post 'em, you check 'em', and an arrow marked 'Please check here!' pointing to the price list below. The colloquial slang and direct invitation to ask questions give a plain-folks tone; the technique is faint.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Price Administration (imprint U.S. Government Printing Office)
- 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
- 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)
Office of Price Administration (imprint U.S. Government Printing Office). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1477 (NAID 515142).
Text on the object
OUR CEILING PRICE LIST WE POST 'EM-- YOU CHECK 'EM PLEASE CHECK HERE! If you have any questions about our prices...PLEASE ASK US! DISPLAY THIS BANNER DIRECTLY ABOVE ONE OF YOUR COMMUNITY CEILING PRICE LISTS [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--O--610622]
