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title: Step up your work with care
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/step-up-your-work-with-care-1942/
description: 'Ordnance Department banner poster: the word CARE in huge red block letters with blue drop shadows, the words ''Step up your work with'' in smaller blue brush'
section: Collection
---

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[![Step up your work with care, 1942 US poster: Ordnance Department banner poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/step-up-your-work-with-care-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/step-up-your-work-with-care-1942.jpg)

# Step up your work with care

Ordnance Department banner poster: the word CARE in huge red block letters with blue drop shadows, the words 'Step up your work with' in smaller blue brush lettering above it, and the Ordnance slogan 'Keep 'em shooting!' at lower right. The national colours and the slogan attach careful work to the supply of weapons (transfer); the technique is faint, as the sheet is mostly lettering.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
STEP UP YOUR WORK WITH
CARE
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—469272]
[imprint: ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY  KEEP 'EM SHOOTING!]
```

[← 'The Spearhead reaches SOUTH - ALWAYS SOUTH!' (Curtin leaflet)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spearhead-reaches-south-curtin-leaflet-1942/) [Stick to your guns! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stick-to-your-guns-victory-news-1942/)

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