Progress: your suggestion helps speed the progress of victory
Blue, black and white poster: a twin-engine aircraft above a streamlined locomotive, with a covered wagon drawn by oxen below, under the headline 'Progress'. A tag reads 'Your suggestion helps speed the progress of VICTORY. You can save time, money, effort and eliminate waste...' and ends 'Suggest now!'. Glittering generalities of progress attached to the suggestion box.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department, Army Service Forces (Suggestion Poster No. 17), art by Vick Carlson
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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)
U.S. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1583 (NAID 515248).
Text on the object
PROGRESS Your Suggestion helps speed the progress of VICTORY You can save time money, effort and eliminate waste... SUGGEST NOW! [signature:] VICK CARLSON [imprint:] WD Suggestion Poster No. 17, Mar 45, "Progress" [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945--O-625021 [imprint:] DISTRIBUTION: Ea fifty (50) civilian employees of the ASF(1).
