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title: Salvage for Victory
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salvage-for-victory-samish-1941/
description: 'Cartoon poster in red, blue and white: a giant Uncle Sam''s hat pours an old car marked ''Old Metal'', rags, paper.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Cartoon rising sun with a scowling face stands for Japan; shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Salvage for Victory, 1941 US poster: Cartoon poster in red, blue and white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/salvage-for-victory-samish-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/salvage-for-victory-samish-1941.jpg)

# Salvage for Victory

Cartoon poster in red, blue and white: a giant Uncle Sam's hat pours an old car marked 'Old Metal', rags, paper, junk and a tire into an 'Uncle Sam War Factory', while Uncle Sam turns a crank and rows of bombers fly away toward a small rising sun with an angry face. Transfer: national symbols stand behind scrap collecting.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SALVAGE
For VICTORY
OLD METAL
RAGS
PAPER
JUNK
RUBBER
UNCLE SAM WAR FACTORY
[signature:] L. R. SAMISH.
[imprint:] Dedicated to Victory — Louis R. Samish, Artist; Lehmann Printing and Lithographing Co. and Everett Pulp & Paper Co. Producers (Copyright applied for)
```

[← Salvage for Victory and Be Proud!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salvage-for-victory-and-be-proud-putnam-county-1941/) [Salvage Scrap to Blast the Jap →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salvage-scrap-to-blast-the-jap-1941/)

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