Share
Colour poster of a red farm tractor and plough seen from low down against a blue sky, with a white slanted panel carrying the single word 'Share'. The technique is faint: one virtue word is attached to the machine with no stated action on the sheet itself (glittering-generalities).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Boards, United States Department of Agriculture; artist Morley; U.S. Government Printing Office
- 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, War Boards. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1721 (NAID 515391).
Text on the object
SHARE [signature: MORLEY] WAR BOARDS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—528352]
