How to Care for Your Child While You Are at Work
Text-only notice from a Newark school board announcing five child-care centers for children of employed mothers, with meals, a nurse and a physician listed under the heading The Program. Red and blue stars frame the type. The technique is faint: the sheet lists the services offered and the admission rules, and nothing else.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Board of Education of Newark, N.J. (printed by The Indian Head Press, Weequahic High School)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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)
Board of Education of Newark, N.J. (printed by The Indian Head Press, Weequahic High School). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1017 (NAID 514543).
Text on the object
HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR CHILD WHILE YOU ARE AT WORK The Board of Education of Newark, N. J., announces the opening of Child-Care Centers at Abington Avenue, Eighteenth Avenue, Lafayette Street, Miller Street, and Webster Street Schools. THE PROGRAM Your child will be given a good breakfast and a hot dinner at noon. Milk with crackers and fruit juices will be served during the day. Teachers, a school nurse, the school physician, and supervised cooks will be in each school Center. Every facility will be provided for complete day-care of children between the ages of 4 and 14. QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION 1.---Mothers must be employed or about to be employed. 2.---Children must be at least 4 years of age. 3.---Mothers should register their children at the Child-Care Center nearest their home. HOURS FOR CHILD-CARE CENTERS 7:00 a. m. --- 5:00 p. m. LOCATION OF CHILD-CARE CENTERS ABINGTON AVENUE SCHOOL - - - - Abington Avenue and North 6th Street EIGHTEENTH AVENUE SCHOOL - - - Eighteenth Avenue and Livingston Street LAFAYETTE STREET SCHOOL - - - - - Lafayette and Congress Streets MILLER STREET SCHOOL - - - - Miller Street and Frelinghuysen Avenue WEBSTER STREET SCHOOL - - - - - - Webster and Crane Streets [imprint:] A product of The Indian Head Press, Weequahic High School, Newark, N. J.
