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title: Know for sure, get blood tests before marriage
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/know-for-sure-get-blood-tests-before-marriage-1941/
description: 'Public-health poster on yellow: a smiling man in a hat carries a smiling woman toward a white doorway, with ''know for sure'' in a red blot and ''get blood'
section: Collection
---

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# Know for sure, get blood tests before marriage

Public-health poster on yellow: a smiling man in a hat carries a smiling woman toward a white doorway, with 'know for sure' in a red blot and 'get blood tests before marriage' below. The technique is faint; the happy-couple image is attached to the test, and no threat is shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
know for sure-
get blood tests before marriage
[signature: KARSAKOV]
[imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941]
UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
VD-17
```

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