First Aid for Our Forests: Prevent Fires, Avoid Disasters
Three tree trunks burn in red flame under a black smoke cloud on the left, while a calm farm and forest landscape sits on the right, with a red cross beside the headline 'First Aid for our forests' and the line 'Prevent fires, avoid disasters'. The red cross borrows the authority of first aid (transfer); the burning-versus-untouched contrast is the fear-appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government (issuer not printed); artist Muni
- 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
- Theme
- 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)
U.S. government (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-776 (NAID 514264).
Text on the object
FIRST AID FOR OUR FORESTS PREVENT FIRES- AVOID DISASTERS [signature:] MUNI [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945-O-624808
