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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Homes Registration Office, Washington, D.C.
- 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
- 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)
Homes Registration Office, Washington, D.C.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-131 (NAID 513579).
Text on the object
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]]
