People who stand on swivel chairs end up in wheel chairs
Office-safety poster: a woman in a dark dress topples backwards off a rolling swivel chair as a filing cabinet and stacked books tip over beside her. The headline warns that standing on swivel chairs leads to wheelchairs. The fear-appeal is a comic image paired with a stated consequence.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Veterans Administration (artist: WB)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- 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)
Veterans Administration (artist: WB). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1507 (NAID 515172).
Text on the object
PEOPLE WHO STAND ON SWIVEL CHAIRS END UP IN WHEEL CHAIRS [signature: WB] [imprint: V.A. POSTER 5-4] [imprint: VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, WASHINGTON D.C.] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946-O-693787]
