Proper harvesting pays
Painted poster: two men cross-cut a marked tree in an autumn woodlot, with stacked logs behind them. A brown panel gives the headline 'Proper harvesting pays' and the advice to sell crooked and low-value trees for ties, posts and fuel. Plain-folks workers; the pitch states only the money benefit.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; art by Earle B. Winslow
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, 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. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1584 (NAID 515249).
Text on the object
PROPER HARVESTING PAYS Sell Crooked and Low Value Trees for Ties, Posts, and Fuel U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service [signature:] Earle B. Winslow '44 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945--O-645348
