Since America was discovered, it's been a land of individual liberty and opportunity
Think American home-front poster: a black silhouette of a sailing ship with two smaller ships behind it against a sunset sky, with white text about liberty and opportunity and an orange line, 'We're fighting to protect that way of living.' The tell is abstract, positive words ('liberty', 'opportunity') attached to the war aim, with the early-voyage image lending them age.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Think American Institute (Kelly-Read & Co., Rochester, N.Y.); artist C. R. Miller
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, 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)
Think American Institute / Kelly-Read & Co.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1751 (NAID 515423).
Text on the object
Since AMERICA was discovered, it's been a land of individual liberty and opportunity We're fighting to protect that way of living. [signature:] C R MILLER [imprint:] THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE (seal) [imprint:] THINKAMERICAN REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. [imprint:] No. 162-COPYRIGHT,-KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y.
