Air Raid Precautions Have Been Taken Here
Small civil-defense window card: a large red check mark beside the blue-and-red Civil Defense (CD) triangle emblem, with blanks for an air raid warden's signature and address. The technique is faint here; the official emblem and the signed check lend the warden's authority to a household's claim of preparedness (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of Civilian Defense (Civil Defense emblem); printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- 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)
Office of Civilian Defense. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-324 (NAID 513771).
Text on the object
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN HERE Signed by ______ WARDEN. ______ ADDRESS [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-27730-1 [emblem:] CD
