# These Are American Republics (1944), a photo sheet of wartime allies

These are American Republics, members of the United Nations is a 1944 photo poster issued by the United Nations Information Office, with art credited to F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler. Captioned photographs of Latin American and Caribbean places and work frame a text on what the republics supplied.

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      These Are American Republics (1944), a photo sheet of wartime allies
      These Are American Republics (1944): a United Nations Information Office photo poster by F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler on Latin American wartime allies.

## Techniques named on the archive record

Card stacking
      Date1944Made byUnited Nations Information Office; artists F. C. Veit and S. M. AdlerMediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeRoosevelt AdministrationNARARecord Group 44SourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceU.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters , retrieved October 3, 2026SourceHeld by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision United Nations Information Office; artists F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-899a.
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  These are American Republics, members of the United Nations is a 1944 photo poster issued by the United Nations Information Office, with art credited to F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler. Captioned photographs of Latin American and Caribbean places and work frame a text on what the republics supplied.

## Photographs around a block of text

The sheet is large and built from photographs. Captioned photographs of places and work in Latin America and the Caribbean surround a central text under the banner "MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS". FRAME says the photographs show agriculture and landmarks. The body text runs to five paragraphs, partly illegible in the scan, and the archive summarizes it: it lists which republics had joined the Allied side and what they supplied, such as strategic materials, bases and convoy support. A short note on the sheet admits that the poster was out of date before it left the press.

these are

AMERICAN REPUBLICS

Six more American republics became members of the United Nations while this poster was going through the press: Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

[...]

MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS

f. c. veit and s. m. adler

Lithographed in the United States of America

ISSUED BY UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION OFFICE

Transcription in the FRAME record; the body text is partly illegible at the archive's resolution and is not transcribed. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. National Archives local id 44-PF-899a.

## Who issued it

The issuer printed on the sheet is the United Nations Information Office, and the artists are credited in lower case as f. c. veit and s. m. adler. The poster says it was lithographed in the United States. The National Archives holds it in Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, under local id 44-PF-899a; the archive gives no NAID. FRAME files it under the Roosevelt administration with the issuer type "State", the audience "Foreign public" and the purpose "Persuade or win support". The record does not say which governments paid for the office or where the poster was hung.

## Contributions listed, costs left off

FRAME's single technique tag is card stacking. The text sums up war declarations and lists contributions, and the archive notes that it gives no figures, dates or costs. The photographs stay with agriculture and landmarks. A reader learns that these countries were partners and what they sent, and nothing of what it cost them.

The note about six late members is the most candid line on the sheet. It reads like a printer's correction, telling the reader the list moved faster than the press.

A Portuguese-language sheet of about 1944, Irmãos de Armas, shows two soldiers arm in arm, one with a U.S. flag patch and one with a "BRASIL" patch. The Spanish-language Rumbo a Tokio is another 1944 sheet in the Foreign Posters series. The Roosevelt administration essay describes the government's wartime information offices.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, These are the American Republics - Members of the United Nations, 1944. United Nations Information Office; artists F. C. Veit and S. M. Adler. Rights as recorded: held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision.

- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, 44-PF-899a, retrieved by the archive 3 October 2026.

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/these-are-american-republics-members-of-the-united-nations-un-1944/