War Production Drive (two donkeys, no headline)
Company-sponsored sheet from a Douglas Aircraft 'War Production Drive': a cartoon strip of two donkeys tied together by a rope, each straining toward its own pile of hay, until they give up and then share one pile and then the other. There is no printed slogan; the moral (cooperation) is carried by the cartoon alone, in an everyday comic idiom.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Douglas Aircraft Company, War Production Drive (Fred W. Jones, artist)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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 Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Douglas Aircraft Company. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-561 (NAID 514040).
Text on the object
[imprint: round emblem] DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE [signature:] FRED W. JONES. [imprint:] ILLUSTRATED PARTS CATALOG W 104
