United We Win
A Black and a white war worker rivet an aircraft section side by side under a full-width American flag, with the words 'United We Win.' The flag transfers national loyalty to the shared job, and 'united' stands in for any claim about how Black and white workers were actually hired, paid or housed in 1943.
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Manpower Commission and Office of War Information (OWI photo by Howard Liberman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Race and ethnicity, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; LOC: no known restrictions on publication)
War Manpower Commission / Office of War Information; photo by Howard Liberman. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ds-13150.
Text on the object
UNITED WE WIN OWI PHOTO BY LIBERMAN OWI Poster No. 18 Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C. [illegible — printer's job-number line] WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION • WASHINGTON, D.C.
The center distribution line and 'OWI Poster No. 18' are printed very small and read at high zoom; a further line beneath it (normally a 'U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE' job-number credit on OWI posters) is too degraded in this scan to transcribe.
