Can you use it? Learn how...now
Industrial fire-safety sheet: a worker in a cap looks up, hand at his chin, at a red fire extinguisher lit against a dark ground, with smoke rising at the bottom edge. The headline asks the viewer a direct question and the tag tells him to learn now; the fear-appeal is the smoke and the hesitating face.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bethlehem Steel Company
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- 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)
Bethlehem Steel Company. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-547 (NAID 514026).
Text on the object
Can You use it? learn how...NOW [on extinguisher label:] FIRE EXTINGUISHER FOR FIRE TURN BOTTOM UP [smaller label text illegible] © BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY
