Share your car: help conserve transportation
Type-only poster: 'Share your car' in huge red brush lettering under 'An official war message', with 'Help conserve transportation' in blue below. There is no picture. The technique is faint here: the sheet relies on an official label and a short slogan to ask drivers to carpool.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information for Office of Defense Transportation
- 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 War Information for Office of Defense Transportation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1724 (NAID 515395).
Text on the object
AN OFFICIAL WAR MESSAGE SHARE YOUR CAR HELP CONSERVE TRANSPORTATION DISTRIBUTED BY OWI FOR OFFICE OF DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1943-O-558331]
