Ideas wanted for safety posters
Navy safety-poster contest sheet: slanted block lettering over a red field, a dark head in profile, a magnifying glass holding the offer text, and drafting tools. The technique is faint here; the only inducement stated is cash awards for approved ideas.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Navy Department Safety Bulletin (artist Thorndike)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, War and the military
- 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)
Navy Department Safety Bulletin. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1047 (NAID 514573).
Text on the object
IDEAS WANTED. FOR SAFETY POSTERS SUBMIT POSTER IDEAS ON SAFETY SUBJECTS TO YOUR SAFETY DEPARTMENT • BETTER POSTER DISPLAY IDEAS ALSO ARE WELCOME • CASH AWARDS WILL BE PAID FOR IDEAS APPROVED [signature:] THORNDIKE. NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY BULLETIN [imprint:] N 656-440209 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--O--588747
