We Have Gas... If You Have Legally Issued Coupons, Properly Endorsed
Type-only counter card for filling stations: 'We have gas... if you have legally issued coupons, properly endorsed', over a black bar reading 'Please help us smash the black market!'. There is no picture and the technique is faint; the closest is the label 'black market' applied to off-coupon sales, with a direct request to the customer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Price Administration
- 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, Economy and finance
- 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)
Office of Price Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-181 (NAID 513627).
Text on the object
WE HAVE GAS... ...IF you have legally issued coupons, properly endorsed PLEASE HELP US SMASH THE BLACK MARKET ! [imprint:] OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-599617 [imprint:] Form No. 302-826, 7-44
