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
- 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, Labor, Gender and suffrage
- 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-1565 (NAID 515230).
Text on the object
[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
