Hilyard Robinson - Architect, Community Planner
A large pencil portrait of Hilyard Robinson is surrounded by vignettes of an artillery crew, a housing block and an airfield control tower with aircraft, with hand-lettered paragraphs on his service and projects. The tell is a weak fit for testimonial: an individual's record is held up as an example, with no stated endorsement.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Race and ethnicity
- 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 (NARA), RG 208, OWI Cartoon Artworks and Mockups (NAID 535594), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-192 (NAID 535675).
Text on the object
Robinson served as a second lieutenant, U.S. Field Artillery, during the last war. HILYARD ROBINSON Architect - Community Planner An authority on housing, he has designed and planned such well known national projects as the "Frederick Douglass Dwellings", Washington, "The Langston Homes", also in Washington, "The Lyons Homes", Sparrow's Point, Maryland, and the war housing project for workers in the Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Robinson proved his versatility as an architect-engineer by his skillful planning and designing of the 1700 acre 99th Pursuit Squadron air base, near Tuskegee. Alston OWI
