Be doubly alert crossing at night
Text-only pedestrian-safety sheet in large green and black capitals reading 'Be doubly alert crossing at night', with an AAA emblem and a 'Cooperation for pedestrian protection and convenience' roundel. The technique is faint: a plain safety instruction with the danger left unstated, closest to a mild fear-appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- American Automobile Association (National Pedestrian Protection Contest)
- 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
- Theme
- 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 Automobile Association (National Pedestrian Protection Contest). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-457 (NAID 513927).
Text on the object
BE DOUBLY ALERT CROSSING AT NIGHT Prepared by American Automobile Association for use in connection with the NATIONAL PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION CONTEST for Cities, States and Schools [logo: AAA] [roundel: COOPERATION FOR PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION AND CONVENIENCE]
