Our spirit of '42: To give our best, that Liberty shall not perish from the earth
Poster with a blue-outlined line drawing of helmeted infantrymen with bayonets behind a red, bare-chested worker swinging a long iron bar at a glowing furnace, under the headline 'Our Spirit of '42'. The tell is the overlay: the soldiers' outline frames the worker, so the soldiers' standing is transferred to factory labour, with a virtue-word line about Liberty.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- ThinkAmerican / Kelly-Read & Co. (artist C. R. Miller)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, War and the military
- 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)
ThinkAmerican / Kelly-Read & Co.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1492 (NAID 515157).
Text on the object
OUR SPIRIT of '42 To give our best, that Liberty shall not perish from the earth [signature: C. R. Miller (as read)] [imprint, lower left: THINKAMERICAN; No. 199 - COPYRIGHT - KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y.; partly illegible]
