A blood test and examination protects your health and family
Health poster showing a physician shaking hands with a smiling shirtless young man, headed 'A Blood Test and examination' and 'Protects Your Health and Family'. The tell is reassurance by image, a friendly doctor and a healthy figure, with the benefit stated in general terms.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- American Social Hygiene Association (Ben Klein)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- 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)
American Social Hygiene Association (Ben Klein). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-266 (NAID 513715).
Text on the object
A BLOOD TEST and examination Protects Your Health and Family [imprint:] AMERICAN SOCIAL HYGIENE ASSOCIATION 1790 BROADWAY, N. Y. CITY, N. Y. POSTER NO. 2 [signature:] Ben Klein
