Night Shift
Yellow-and-black print of a man in a fedora and a woman in a head scarf, both wearing plant badges and carrying lunch boxes beside a wall clock, under the title NIGHT SHIFT and the advice to guard against fatigue with rest and good food. Ordinary war workers stand in for the audience (plain-folks), and a small Uncle Sam hat on the 'night shift' booklet emblem lends the national symbol to the health message.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service (WH28)
- 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
- Health, Labor, Home front
- 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 (WH28). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1406 (NAID 515070).
Text on the object
NIGHT SHIFT [clock face numerals 12 to 5 printed on the clock] [signature: illegible] Federal Security Agency WH28—U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE * for more information read— night shift GUARD AGAINST FATIGUE BY GETTING PLENTY OF REST AND GOOD FOOD— [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—587497
