Produce for Victory!
A close photographic portrait of a workman in a cap against sky and a crane, with a first-person quotation below urging every job be treated as a fighting man's job. The sheet pairs an everyday worker with a speaking voice, the plain-folks device, and uses 'freedom at stake' as broad virtue language.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- The Sheldon-Claire Co., Chicago
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance, 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)
The Sheldon-Claire Co. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1557 (NAID 515222).
Text on the object
"Every job is a fighting man's job. Minutes count with free- dom at stake. Let's cram them full of work!" PRODUCE FOR VICTORY! [imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago [imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A. Form No. 22
