Aumente la Producción Conservando su Suelo [Increase production by conserving your soil]

Barefoot farmworkers with machetes tend contoured, terraced crop rows on a hillside in tropical dress, under a Spanish slogan urging more production through soil conservation. The tell for plain-folks is the ordinary smallholder shown as the model, and for glittering-generalities the abstract call to 'increase production' with no specific figure.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Plain folksGlittering generalities

Date

1944

Period

Second World War

Made by

United States government (printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office); artist H. E. Chapman

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Roosevelt Administration

Leader

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Mobilize or secure compliance

Themes

Home front, Economy and finance

Event

World War II

Regime

Roosevelt administration

Leader

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are

Source

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026

Rights

Public domain (US federal government work)
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944; artist H. E. Chapman. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44.

AUMENTE LA
PRODUCCIÓN
CONSERVANDO
SU SUELO

[signature:] H.E. Chapman
☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—581982

INCREASE
PRODUCTION
BY CONSERVING
YOUR SOIL

[signature:] H.E. Chapman
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944