Beware!
Bulletin-board placard: a large winged insect with a grimacing, toothy human-like face faces the viewer beneath the headline 'Beware!'. The sheet names no threat in words; it belongs to the War Production Drive absenteeism series, so the bug stands for lost work days, a fear-appeal by menace imagery.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Drive Headquarters (War Production Board), artist Seaman
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, 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)
War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-483 (NAID 513962).
Text on the object
BEWARE! [signature:] Seaman [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-525299 WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE HEADQUARTERS BULLETIN BOARD PLACARD NO. 26
