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title: Handle With Care
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/handle-with-care-1944/
description: 'Restaurant hygiene poster: a smiling server holds a drinking glass by its base and a fork by its handle at a set table.'
section: Collection
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[![Handle With Care, 1944 US poster: Restaurant hygiene poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/handle-with-care-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/handle-with-care-1944.jpg)

# Handle With Care

Restaurant hygiene poster: a smiling server holds a drinking glass by its base and a fork by its handle at a set table. Labels read 'Don't touch rims' and 'Use handles' under the headline 'Handle with care'. The technique is faint: a plain demonstration with a friendly figure.

## 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

```
... for our patrons' health
Don't touch rims
Use handles
Handle with care
[signature: Nydorf]
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C.
Federal Security Agency, U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
RS-5
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-568864]
```

[← Handle carefully, beware sharp edges on castings](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/handle-carefully-sharp-edges-castings-1944/) [Handle with care! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/handle-with-care-compressed-gas-navy-1944/)

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