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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
- 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
- Health
- 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)
Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1528 (NAID 515194).
Text on the object
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]
