Soldier and child (untitled photograph poster)
A full-sheet black-and-white photograph in a red border shows a uniformed soldier with a rifle holding a crying toddler against his cheek. There is no headline or slogan. The technique is faint here: the tell is transfer, in which the emotion of a family parting is attached to military service without any stated message.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government Printing Office imprint; issuing agency not printed
- 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
- War and the military, 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)
U.S. Government Printing Office (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1772 (NAID 515445).
Text on the object
[imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—544305
