Peanut oil will make medicine
Black-and-white photograph poster of a woman in a white coat holding a graduated cylinder, framed in yellow bands: peanut oil will make medicine, soap, salad oil, shortening for the home front. The laboratory image lends scientific weight to a farm crop.
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, Health, Science and technology
- 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-1504 (NAID 515169).
Text on the object
PEANUT OIL will make ★ medicine soap salad oil shortening for the HOME FRONT [imprint:] ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-510844 RIGHT PANEL OF 3 PANEL PEANUT DISPLAY
