Team Work Wins! Your Work Here Makes Their Work Over There Possible
A factory worker in shirtsleeves, an American flag behind him, leans over a machine gun in a window above a trench scene where helmeted soldiers fire a belt-fed machine gun. The text says the worker's output makes the soldiers invincible and that without it they are helpless. The tell is the fusion of the war worker with the front-line soldier as one team, paired with a stark dependence framing.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-306.
Text on the object
TEAM WORK WINS! Your work here makes their work over there possible With your help they are invincible Without it they are helpless Whatever you make, machine gun or harness, cartridges or helmet, they are waiting for it. Issued by authority Ordnance Department, U.S. Army [signature:] ROY HULL STILL [monogram: DP] [imprint, lower right:] JOHN H. EGGERS CO., INC., NEW YORK
