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title: 'Produce for Victory: We, the Americans of today'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-the-americans-of-today-produce-for-victory-1942/
description: 'Colour portrait poster: a close, low-lit face of an older man in a flat cap against a dark blue ground. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.'
section: Collection
---

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# Produce for Victory: We, the Americans of today

Colour portrait poster: a close, low-lit face of an older man in a flat cap against a dark blue ground. The quotation uses an emphasised 'WE' and the phrase 'fires of freedom' to link present workers to past and future Americans. Technique: glittering-generalities, with identity-fusion in the collective 'WE'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[credit line:] Keith J. Aulik
"WE, the Americans of today, know our
duty to the Americans of yesterday and
the Americans of tomorrow. WE shall
keep the fires of freedom burning."

PRODUCE FOR VICTORY!
[imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago
[imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A. Form No. 19
```

[← We French workers warn you... defeat means slavery, starvation, death](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-french-workers-warn-you-1942/) [What do you say, America? (Hitler) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/what-do-you-say-america-hitler-1942/)

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