Prevent woods fires: Greater danger than ever
Forest-fire prevention poster: a burning clearing with felled logs and stumps, flames running across the ground between standing pines, under the headline 'Prevent Woods Fires'. The closing line 'Greater danger than ever!' carries the fear-appeal; the burning ground is the visual proof offered.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, with State Forest Service; artist Harry Rossoll
- 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
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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-1550 (NAID 515215).
Text on the object
PREVENT WOODS FIRES Greater danger than ever! [signature:] HARRY ROSSOLL [imprint:] U. S. DEPT. AGRICULTURE, FOREST SERVICE [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944—O—[number illegible] [imprint:] STATE FOREST SERVICE
