Aids to Navigation
Informational sheet showing the lightship SAN FRANCISCO riding heavy seas beside a large steamer, from a painting by J. D. Wisinsky, with a line stating that the Coast Guard maintains and operates lightships at principal harbor entrances. The technique is faint here: it is a service-description sheet that shows only the service's work, a mild card-stacking by selection.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Coast Guard
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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)
U.S. Coast Guard. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-313 (NAID 513760).
Text on the object
Aids to Navigation SAN FRANCISCO From the Painting by J. D. Wisinsky The United States Coast Guard Maintains and Operates Lightships at the Entrances of Principal Harbors of the United States. [imprint: NRB-28537-1-14-41-1M]
