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title: Dust paris green on swamps and ponds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dust-paris-green-on-swamps-and-ponds-1943/
description: 'Public health poster: a cartoon worker in a straw hat pushes a hand duster across a pond edge while larvae in the water say, ''Curses!'
section: Collection
---

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[![Dust paris green on swamps and ponds, 1943 US poster: Public health poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dust-paris-green-on-swamps-and-ponds-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dust-paris-green-on-swamps-and-ponds-1943.jpg)

# Dust paris green on swamps and ponds

Public health poster: a cartoon worker in a straw hat pushes a hand duster across a pond edge while larvae in the water say, 'Curses! It's plain to see malaria mosquitoes we'll never be!' The ask is a practical task (dusting breeding water). The technique is faint; the closest is plain-folks, an ordinary worker doing the job, with humour carrying the message.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
DUST PARIS GREEN ON
SWAMPS AND PONDS
CURSES!
IT'S PLAIN TO SEE
MALARIA MOSQUITOES
WE'LL NEVER BE !
[signature: Mango]
Federal Security Agency
U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-516139]
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
MC 5
```

[← Dr. Charles Hawkins - Inventor, Research Specialist](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dr-charles-hawkins-inventor-research-specialist-alston-1943/) [Easy to Get... Syphilis and Gonorrhea →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/easy-to-get-syphilis-and-gonorrhea-1943/)

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