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
- 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
- War and the military, Labor
- 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-9.
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 [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.
