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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service (artist Margo)
- 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
- 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-760 (NAID 514248).
Text on the object
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
