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title: Show your muscle! More production
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/show-your-muscle-more-production-1942/
description: Cartoon worker in a soft hat and overalls winks at the viewer and flexes a large blue arm bearing the words more production.
section: Collection
---

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# Show your muscle! More production

Cartoon worker in a soft hat and overalls winks at the viewer and flexes a large blue arm bearing the words more production, under the headline 'Show your muscle!'. The worker is an everyman figure with a lapel button showing a similar face, so the plain-folks device carries the appeal; the exhortation is direct.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Show your Muscle!
MORE
PRODUCTION
[imprint: WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C.]
[imprint: ★U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—464577]
```

[← Should brave men die so you can drive...?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/should-brave-men-die-so-you-can-drive-1942/) [Show-down: only work can make US strong! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/showdown-only-work-can-make-us-strong-1942/)

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