Produce for Victory!
Colour photographic poster from a commercial publisher: a man in a pinstripe suit in a crowd, face crumpled as if weeping, with onlookers behind him. Below, a first-person quotation in the voice of a 'free French worker' now 'the slave of the invader' urges the American reader to produce tanks, planes and guns. Testimonial plus fear-appeal.
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., Chicago. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1578 (NAID 515243).
Text on the object
[credit line:] By Permission Movietone News "Yesterday, I was a free French worker. Today, I am the slave of the invader. Believe, mon Americain, nothing is im- portant but to keep your freedom - to produce, to build tanks, planes, guns. Destroy the enemy who would take your freedom. For your sake - for God's sake - PRODUCE FOR VICTORY! [imprint:] LITHOGRAPHED IN U. S. A. [imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago [imprint:] FORM NO. 1
