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title: 'Fight Mosquitoes at Home: Spray, Screen, Cover Cracks'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fight-mosquitoes-at-home-1943/
description: Stylised hands hold a spray gun, hammer a screen into place and tack over a floor crack, under the headline 'Fight Mosquitoes at Home' and the three verbs
section: Collection
---

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[![Fight Mosquitoes at Home: Spray, Screen, Cover Cracks, 1943 US poster: Stylised hands hold a spray gun, hammer a screen into](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fight-mosquitoes-at-home-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fight-mosquitoes-at-home-1943.jpg)

# Fight Mosquitoes at Home: Spray, Screen, Cover Cracks

Stylised hands hold a spray gun, hammer a screen into place and tack over a floor crack, under the headline 'Fight Mosquitoes at Home' and the three verbs 'spray... screen... cover cracks'. The technique is faint here: the poster is mostly instruction, with anonymous ordinary hands standing for the householder, and the military 'fight' framing is carried by the headline.

## 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

```
FIGHT MOSQUITOES
AT HOME
spray...
screen...
cover cracks
[signature: Margo]
MC-7
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-526130]
[imprint: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.]
Federal Security Agency
U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
```

[← Farmers... meet your goals. They'll meet theirs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/farmers-meet-your-goals-1943/) [Fight... Syphilis and Gonorrhea →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fight-syphilis-and-gonorrhea-army-1943/)

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