Guard against tuberculosis, have your picture taken
A collage in teal, white and red: a shirtless man stands at a chest X-ray unit, a dashed line runs to a film of a chest X-ray, and smiling faces of a woman and two men float above. The headline urges readers to have their picture taken and 'guard against TUBERCULOSIS'. The ordinary smiling faces carry a plain-folks appeal; the technique is faint here.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service (Kula-Robbins)
- 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, 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 (Kula-Robbins). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-920 (NAID 514425).
Text on the object
have your picture taken guard against TUBERCULOSIS TB-3 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-527729 Federal Security Agency U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [signature:] Kula-Robbins
