We need lumber for housing
Four stern faces of a soldier, sailor, airman and marine frame the headline WE NEED LUMBER above five captioned photographs of barracks, war housing, blimp hangars, prefabricated houses and unit construction, over the line 'for HOUSING'. The servicemen's faces lend authority to the request, and the photographs list uses of lumber without figures (testimonial, card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Lumber and Timber Products War Committee
- 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, 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)
Lumber and Timber Products War Committee. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-475 (NAID 513945).
Text on the object
WE NEED LUMBER for HOUSING BARRACKS WAR HOUSING BLIMP HANGARS PREFABRICATED UNIT CONSTRUCTION [illegible: crane truck lettering] CRANE SERVICE [imprint:] 1-43-5M LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS WAR COMMITTEE, 1319 18TH ST. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C.
