Fun, off the job keeps him on the job
Public Health Service recreation poster: a stout, smiling worker in a paper cap swings back a bowling ball against a plain blue ground, under 'Fun, off the job keeps him on the job'. The technique is faint: a plain-folks worker figure carries a simple health message. Signed H. Price.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service
- 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
- Themes
- Health, Labor, 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-1189B (NAID 514789).
Text on the object
Federal Security Agency U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [signature:] H. PRICE Fun, off the job keeps him on the job [imprint:] ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—485813 [imprint:] WH 3
