Beat the skin game
Two-colour health poster for industrial workers: a man in work clothes carries a jacket under the words WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES, and a man lathers himself in a shower under A SHOWER AFTER WORK. The headline 'beat the skin game' sits on a black band between them, with a small inset 'Save your skin' booklet cover. The technique is plain-folks imagery of ordinary workers modelling the advised habits; the technique is faint.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service
- 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
- Health, Labor
- 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)
Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-472 (NAID 513942).
Text on the object
Federal Security Agency WH24—U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES beat the skin game A SHOWER AFTER WORK Save your skin for more information read— [signature:] [illegible] [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—587507
