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title: Team Work Wins! Your Work Here Makes Their Work Over There Possible
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/team-work-wins-your-work-here-1918/
description: A machinist at a window beside an American flag works at a machine gun, above a trench scene in which three soldiers man a belt-fed machine gun.
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# Team Work Wins! Your Work Here Makes Their Work Over There Possible

A machinist at a window beside an American flag works at a machine gun, above a trench scene in which three soldiers man a belt-fed machine gun. The text states that soldiers are 'invincible' with the worker's help and 'helpless' without it, joining the factory hand and the soldier into a single team.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
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

[artist's signature, lower left: ROY HULL STILL]
[monogram: DP]
JOHN H. EGGERS CO. INC., NEW YORK
```

The artist's signature (lower left, stacked 'ROY / HULL / STILL') and a DP monogram are lettering and are transcribed; the printer's imprint is very small and its reading is tentative.

[← Team Work Wins! Your Work Here Makes Their Work Over There Possible](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/team-work-wins-ordnance-department-1918/) [Tell That to the Marines! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tell-that-to-the-marines-1918/)

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- [A Little American's Promise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-little-americans-promise-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion, Transfer)
- [All Together! Enlist in the Navy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-together-enlist-in-the-navy-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Bandwagon, Identity fusion)
- [Members of U.S. Food Administration: America Has Promised to Feed the Hungry Millions of Europe, Waste Nothing](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/america-food-pledge-20-million-tons-1917-1919/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion)
- [Do Your Duty. Join the U.S. Marines. Help Them Defend America on Land and Sea](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/do-your-duty-join-the-us-marines-1917-1919/) (United States · 1917 · Glittering generalities, Identity fusion)
- [50-50 (The Job of Beating Up the Hun)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fifty-fifty-service-series-11-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Name-calling, Identity fusion)
- [Food Will Win the War: Member of United States Food Administration (Pledge Card)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/food-will-win-the-war-member-pledge-card-1917-1919/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion, Bandwagon)
- [Hit the Bull's Eye! Are You on This List? Get Your Name in the Circle: It's the Ring of Liberty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hit-the-bulls-eye-ring-of-liberty-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Bandwagon, Identity fusion)
- [I Am a Soldier of the United States (Service Series No. 12)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-am-a-soldier-of-the-united-states-service-series-no-12-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion, Glittering generalities)