Health wanted: have your chest x-rayed, find TB early
Public health poster in blue and grey: a chest x-ray film at upper left, a worker with a bundle on his shoulder, factory chimneys and city skyline, and the headline 'Health wanted'. The x-ray image carries a mild fear-appeal about undetected tuberculosis, paired with a direct request to have your chest x-rayed and find TB early.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- 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, 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-947 (NAID 514453).
Text on the object
HEALTH WANTED have your chest x-rayed . . find TB early TB-2 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-527731] Federal Security Agency U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [handwritten: Kula]
