Posture standards. Intermediate-type boys
Health-education chart for intermediate-type boys: four dark side-view silhouettes lettered A to D and graded Excellent, Good, Poor and Bad, each over a boxed list of four body points (head, chest, abdomen, back curve). The technique is faint here; the graded value labels carry the persuasion beside a plain descriptive scale.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1926
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Coolidge Administration
- Leader
- Calvin Coolidge
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Health
- 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-1533 (NAID 515198).
Text on the object
POSTURE STANDARDS Intermediate-Type Boys Excellent Good Poor Bad A B C D EXCELLENT POSTURE 1. Head up-chin in (Head balanced above shoulders, hips, and ankles) 2. Chest up (Breast bone the part of body far- thest forward.) 3. Lower abdomen in, and flat. 4. Back curves with- in normal limits. GOOD POSTURE 1. Head slightly forward. 2. Chest slightly lowered. 3. Lower abdomen in (but not flat) 4. Back curves slightly increased. POOR POSTURE 1. Head forward. 2. Chest flat. 3. Abdomen relaxed (Part of body far- thest forward.) 4. Back curves exag- gerated. BAD POSTURE 1. Head markedly forward. 2. Chest depressed (Sunken) 3. Abdomen complete- ly relaxed and pro- tuberant. 4. Back curves extreme- ly exaggerated. Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1926. [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [remainder illegible]
