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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, 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)
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1809 (NAID 515488).
Text on the object
STEP UP YOUR WORK WITH CARE [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—469272] [imprint: ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY KEEP 'EM SHOOTING!]
