Content note: Cartoon depiction of a dirty washroom (litter, stains, a soiled toilet partly visible). This object is shown as it was published. Why
Jenny on the job says: Home was never like this! Let's keep OUR rest room clean!
Health-education poster in the 'Jenny on the job' series: a cartoon woman war worker in blue coveralls, hands on hips and scowling, stands in a washroom with smeared mirrors, paper on the floor and litter in the basins. The technique is faint; the figure is an ordinary co-worker speaking in the first person plural ('OUR rest room'), a plain-folks voice that asks for shared upkeep.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service (artist Kula)
- 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
- Home front, Health, 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)
Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1141A (NAID 514677).
Text on the object
Jenny on the job says- Home was never like this ! Let's keep OUR rest room clean ! [imprint: WH 17 Federal Security Agency U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943 - O - 529858] [signature: Kula]
