Keep guard in place
Navy Department industrial safety poster: two gloved hands hold a portable grinding wheel with its red guard over the upper half, and red sparks fly from the exposed lower edge, under the headline 'Keep guard in place'. The technique is faint: the sparks and bare wheel imply injury without showing any.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (Navy Department safety poster)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Health
- 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)
U.S. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1186 (NAID 514784).
Text on the object
KEEP GUARD IN PLACE NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY POSTER [imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—622004
