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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board
- 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
- Labor, Home front
- 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)
War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1742 (NAID 515413).
Text on the object
Show your Muscle! MORE PRODUCTION [imprint: WAR PRODUCTION BOARD WASHINGTON, D. C.] [imprint: ★U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—464577]
