To Everyone in This Plant: Our Country Is Depending on You
A shipyard scene with cranes and workers sits beside a shield of stars and stripes above a block of text addressed to everyone in a government-work plant. The wording frames each worker as owing the United States a duty and ends with a direct appeal, 'Our country is depending on you.'
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Emergency Fleet Corporation (Publications Section)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor, Economy and finance
- 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
Emergency Fleet Corporation (Publications Section). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-41.
Text on the object
TO EVERYONE IN THIS PLANT: THIS PLANT IS ENGAGED UPON GOVERNMENT WORK EVERY PERSON HERE OWES THE UNITED STATES A DUTY TO DO HIS UTMOST TO MAKE MATERIAL FOR OUR SHIPS CAREFULLY AND SPEEDILY . . . . LET THIS BE YOUR PART OUR COUNTRY IS DEPENDING ON YOU EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION ISSUED BY PUBLICATIONS SECTION, EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION, PHILADELPHIA [printer line under the picture, small: THOMSEN-ELLIS CO. BALTIMORE NEW YORK] [artist's signature at upper right of the picture, small: partly legible]
The letter S is styled like a dollar sign throughout the lettering and is transcribed as S. The printer line and the artist's signature in the picture are very small and read with some uncertainty.
