Rationing is sharing with our fighters and neighbors
Type-only home-front poster in blue, white and red bands: 'RATIONING', 'IS SHARING', 'With Our Fighters and Neighbors'. There is no picture. The tell is the reframing of rationing as sharing and the grouping of soldiers and neighbors into one 'we', with no specifics about what is rationed.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Price Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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)
Office of Price Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1609 (NAID 515274).
Text on the object
RATIONING IS SHARING With Our Fighters and Neighbors O. P. A. POSTER [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—518863]
