Beware of carbon monoxide
Public Health Service safety poster: very large type reads 'Beware of carbon monoxide' above four small panels showing a car in a garage, a foundry ladle, a heating plant and a 'KO by CO gas' booklet cover. The warning is stated in words and pictures with little emotional imagery; the fear-appeal 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, 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)
Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-485 (NAID 513966).
Text on the object
BEWARE OF carbon monoxide IN GARAGES IN FOUNDRIES IN HEATING PLANTS for more information read- KO by CO gas [signature:] Mydoff [illegible] Federal Security Agency WH36-U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-587614
