Peanut oil will make dynamite
Black-and-white photograph poster of a helmeted soldier with fixed bayonet, framed in yellow bands: peanut oil will make dynamite, gas mask bags, paint and gas proof capes for the battle front. The soldier's image is attached to an agricultural product.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not named (U.S. Government Printing Office imprint)
- 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, War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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)
Issuer not named (U.S. Government Printing Office imprint). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1503 (NAID 515168).
Text on the object
PEANUT OIL will make ★ dynamite gas mask bags paint gas proof capes for the BATTLE FRONT [imprint:] ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-510844 LEFT PANEL OF 3 PANEL PEANUT DISPLAY
