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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (issuer not printed; U.S. Government Printing Office imprint)
- 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, Economy and finance, War and the military
- 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. Government. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1743 (NAID 515414).
Text on the object
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]]
