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title: Map Your Course in Advance, Stick to It, Cross Only at Corners
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description: 'Pedestrian-safety poster in two panels: a naval officer in a peaked cap marks a chart at a table, and below a street map shows a dotted red route that'
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[![Map Your Course in Advance, Stick to It, Cross Only at Corners, 1943 US poster: Pedestrian-safety poster in two panels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/map-your-course-cross-only-at-corners-aaa-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/map-your-course-cross-only-at-corners-aaa-1943.jpg)

# Map Your Course in Advance, Stick to It, Cross Only at Corners

Pedestrian-safety poster in two panels: a naval officer in a peaked cap marks a chart at a table, and below a street map shows a dotted red route that turns at corners. The tell is transfer: the officer's course-plotting is set beside the instruction to cross only at corners, so a navy figure's authority is lent to a road-safety rule.

## 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

```
MAP
YOUR COURSE
IN ADVANCE
STICK TO IT
CROSS
ONLY AT
CORNERS
[imprint: AAA emblem, copyright symbol]
S. S. P. No. 147
Copyright 1943
American Automobile Association
Traffic Engineering & Safety Dept.
"VICTORY HEROES" SERIES
Accidents Are Avoidable
Alertness Avoids Accidents
```

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