Produce for Victory!
Colour painted-style poster from a commercial publisher: a close portrait of a helmeted soldier with a gas-mask canister at his neck. A quotation in his voice tells the factory worker 'We're all soldiers together' and that battle victories 'come right after your victories in production.' The slogan 'Produce for Victory!' closes the sheet. Testimonial plus transfer of the soldier's standing to the worker.
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-1579 (NAID 515244).
Text on the object
[credit line:] By Special Permission of Howard W. Osbahr "You make 'em, buddy . . . we'll use 'em . . . and how! We're all soldiers to- gether. Our victories in battle come right after your victories in production." PRODUCE FOR VICTORY! [imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago [imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A. [imprint:] Form No. 7
