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title: Position of skeleton in good and in poor posture
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/position-of-skeleton-in-good-and-in-poor-posture-1939/
description: 'Health-education chart: two side-view skeleton outlines inside body outlines, one upright against a plumb line labelled ''Good posture''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Position of skeleton in good and in poor posture, 1939 US poster: Health-education chart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/position-of-skeleton-in-good-and-in-poor-posture-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/position-of-skeleton-in-good-and-in-poor-posture-1939.jpg)

# Position of skeleton in good and in poor posture

Health-education chart: two side-view skeleton outlines inside body outlines, one upright against a plumb line labelled 'Good posture', one with forward head and rounded back labelled 'Poor posture'. The technique is faint here; the value-laden labels 'good' and 'poor' do the persuading beside a plain anatomical comparison.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
POSITION OF SKELETON IN GOOD
AND IN POOR POSTURE
GOOD
POSTURE
POOR
POSTURE
Children's Bureau, United States, Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1939
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [remainder illegible]
```

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