Produce for Victory!
Colour photographic poster from a commercial publisher: a welder in a mask and gloves, sparks flying, above a paragraph listing factory sounds that 'echo' the slogan 'Remember Pearl Harbor'. The slogan 'Produce for Victory!' closes the sheet. The technique is transfer: the emotion of the Pearl Harbor attack is attached to factory output.
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.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-164 (NAID 513610).
Text on the object
The hum of the motor . . . the pound of the punch press . . . the rat-a-tat-tat of the riveter . . . the flash of the welder . . . the thunder of the rolling mill . . . the roar of America in pro- duction echoes "Remember Pearl Harbor . . . REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!" PRODUCE FOR VICTORY! [imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A. [imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago [imprint:] Form No. 5
