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title: War workers need rooms, apartments, homes
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/war-workers-need-rooms-apartments-homes-1942/
description: A black and white photograph of a man with a coat over his arm, a woman holding a handbag and a small girl with a doll.
section: Collection
---

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[![War workers need rooms, apartments, homes, 1942 US poster: A black and white photograph of a man with a coat over his arm](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/war-workers-need-rooms-apartments-homes-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/war-workers-need-rooms-apartments-homes-1942.jpg)

# War workers need rooms, apartments, homes

A black and white photograph of a man with a coat over his arm, a woman holding a handbag and a small girl with a doll, sitting on a suitcase beside luggage, with the text 'War workers need rooms, apartments, homes. Register your vacancies now' and an HR emblem. The technique is faint here; the ordinary family is shown as the people to be housed.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
War Workers Need
ROOMS
APARTMENTS
HOMES
REGISTER YOUR
VACANCIES NOW
HR
Phone or Visit Homes Registration Office
REpublic 1086 - 14th ST. and PENNSYLVANIA AVE.
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942 - O - [illegible]]
```

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