Plow around for safety - see your firewarden
Colour painting of a farmer guiding a mule-drawn plough around a brush fire, with two men in overalls tending the burning pile behind, under 'Plow around for safety - see your firewarden' and 'Prevent forest fires'. The technique is plain-folks: ordinary farmers doing a routine burn the careful way carry the message. The technique is faint here, and the sheet shows no wartime reference.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; artist B. E. Martin
- 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
- Theme
- 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1525 (NAID 515191).
Text on the object
Plow around for safety -see your firewarden Prevent forest fires [Forest Service shield: FOREST SERVICE / U.S. / DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE] [signature: B. E. MARTIN] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943--O-513707]
