You can help make America Strong
Low-angle photograph of a bare-chested young man carrying a large pipe on his shoulder, with the text 'You can help MAKE AMERICA STRONG' below. The slogan is a broad virtue phrase with no specific action named on the sheet, so the technique is glittering-generalities, with the athletic worker image as its carrier.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- 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, Health
- 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)
Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1313M (NAID 514951).
Text on the object
You can help MAKE AMERICA STRONG U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941--O--292318 EXTENSION SERVICE, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WASHINGTON, D. C. . Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . Poster No. 1 . For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., Price 75 cents a set
