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
- 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, Migration, 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)
The Sheldon-Claire Co.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-165 (NAID 513611).
Text on the object
"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
