Seamen needed
Recruiting poster: a smiling young sailor in a dark cap in front of a cargo ship at sea, with a list of training branches and the Maritime Service seal. The technique is modest; transfer carries the seal, the uniform and the ship onto the offer to train and apply.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Maritime Service (artist C. Ruggiero, USMS)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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. Maritime Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1691 (NAID 515362).
Text on the object
SEAMEN NEEDED TRAIN FOR Deck Department Engine Department Steward's Department Radio Operator Asst. Purser-Hospital Corps UNITED STATES MARITIME SERVICE APPLY U. S. MARITIME SERVICE [signature: C. Ruggiero USMS] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—545939]
