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title: Produce for Victory!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/produce-for-victory-ellis-island-1942/
description: 'Colour photographic poster from a commercial publisher: a close-up of a heavy-set man in glasses and a striped apron-front shirt.'
section: Collection
---

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# Produce for Victory!

Colour photographic poster from a commercial publisher: a close-up of a heavy-set man in glasses and a striped apron-front shirt, beneath a quotation in his voice that calls himself an 'Ellis Island American' fighting 'on the production line'. The slogan 'Produce for Victory!' closes the sheet. The quotation speaks for an unnamed ordinary worker (testimonial, plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"I'm an Ellis Island American. I left
the old country to be free - and nobody is
going to take that freedom away. That's
why I'm fighting on the production line -
to help destroy the enemies of freedom.
Let's keep 'em rolling!"

PRODUCE FOR VICTORY!
[credit line:] Otto Hagel
[imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A.
[imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago
[imprint:] Form No. 2
```

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