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title: Show your timber! Cut logs now!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/show-your-timber-cut-logs-now-1943/
description: Painted portrait of a lumberman in a cap and work jacket testing the edge of an axe with his thumb, under the headline 'Show your timber!'.
section: Collection
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[![Show your timber! Cut logs now!, 1943 US poster: Painted portrait of a lumberman in a cap and work jacket testing the edge](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/show-your-timber-cut-logs-now-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/show-your-timber-cut-logs-now-1943.jpg)

# Show your timber! Cut logs now!

Painted portrait of a lumberman in a cap and work jacket testing the edge of an axe with his thumb, under the headline 'Show your timber!'. A red panel says to cut logs now and that the U.S. needs them for boxing, ships, planes and army trucks, with a yellow 'Prices are up!' tag. The figure is a plain-folks worker; the price tag adds a material inducement beside the war-need claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
SHOW YOUR TIMBER!
CUT LOGS NOW!
PRICES
ARE UP!
U.S. needs your logs now
to help make boxing, ships,
planes and army trucks.
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—[illegible]]
```

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