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title: Allies in the Shipyards
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-allies-in-the-shipyards-1939/
description: A large photograph of a ship on the stocks sits beside a column of Allied national flags, with six small photographs of workers captioned Norway.
section: Collection
---

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[![Allies in the Shipyards, 1939 UK poster: A large photograph of a ship on the stocks sits beside a column of Allied national](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-allies-in-the-shipyards-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-allies-in-the-shipyards-1939.jpg)

# Allies in the Shipyards

A large photograph of a ship on the stocks sits beside a column of Allied national flags, with six small photographs of workers captioned Norway, Fighting France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Norway. The text says all are workers in the same British shipyard. The tell is transfer: the flags and national labels attach the prestige of the occupied Allied nations to the British yard.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ALLIES IN THE SHIPYARDS
[photo captions:] NORWAY / FIGHTING FRANCE / POLAND / CZECHOSLOVAKIA / BELGIUM / NORWAY
THE WORKERS PORTRAYED ABOVE, ARE ALL
WORKERS IN THE SAME BRITISH SHIPYARD!
[imprint:] PRINTED IN ENGLAND
```

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