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title: Produce for Victory!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/produce-for-victory-man-for-man-1942/
description: 'Colour photographic poster from a commercial publisher: a red-haired woman in blue work clothes holding a carburettor-type engine part and a tool.'
section: Collection
---

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# Produce for Victory!

Colour photographic poster from a commercial publisher: a red-haired woman in blue work clothes holding a carburettor-type engine part and a tool, above a quotation saying America's workers and soldiers are the best in the world and that workers will help defend the nation they built. Superlative language ('the best in the world') carried by a worker's voice.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[credit line:] Courtesy of NEWSWEEK Magazine.
"Man for man, America's workers
and America's soldiers are the best in
the world! We helped them build our
nation . . . we'll help them defend it."

PRODUCE FOR VICTORY!
[imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago
[imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A. Form No. 17
```

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