Honorable Discharge. Victory. We Don't Put Down Our Tools Till Quitting Time
A soldier in campaign hat with a rifle on his shoulder stands beside a clock whose face is labelled 'Honorable Discharge' at the top and 'Victory' at the bottom, under the line 'We don't put down our tools till quitting time.' The 'we' joins civilians to the soldier, and the clock turns the war into a working day that ends only with victory, the tell of bandwagon pressure to keep working.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Unattributed U.S. home-front war poster (issuer not printed)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Unattributed U.S. home-front war poster (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-262.
Text on the object
HONORABLE DISCHARGE VICTORY We don't put down our tools till quitting time.
