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title: A Better Home
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-better-home-rea-beall-1941/
description: 'Rural Electrification Administration poster: a red-dot pattern and a blue banner reading ''A Better Home'' above a photograph of a woman lifting a tray'
section: Collection
---

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[![A Better Home, 1941 US poster: Rural Electrification Administration poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-better-home-rea-beall-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-better-home-rea-beall-1941.jpg)

# A Better Home

Rural Electrification Administration poster: a red-dot pattern and a blue banner reading 'A Better Home' above a photograph of a woman lifting a tray of biscuits from an electric oven. The technique is faint; the sheet pairs a general benefit word with a domestic photograph and does not make an explicit claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
[signature:] BEALL
A Better Home
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION
U. S. Department of Agriculture
```

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