Anybody Working
An observatory dome lettered U.S. SCIENCE has its telescope swung toward streaking objects in a night sky, with question marks above it; a sign in front reads DO NOT DISTURB.... MEN WATCHING! The cartoon argues that American science is occupied by something overhead; the technique is a weak fit (fear-appeal, through unease about the sky).
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- October 6, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Science and technology, Security and surveillance
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743253 (NAID 5743253).
Text on the object
U.S. SCIENCE DO NOT DISTURB.... MEN WATCHING! JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR....
