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title: Protect your eyes. Maintain a proper diet
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/protect-your-eyes-maintain-a-proper-diet-1941/
description: 'Health poster: a cartoon rabbit with a grin and red eye hugs a large carrot, while an orange cloud of carrot tops fills the upper left under the headline'
section: Collection
---

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[![Protect your eyes. Maintain a proper diet, 1941 US poster: Health poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/protect-your-eyes-maintain-a-proper-diet-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/protect-your-eyes-maintain-a-proper-diet-1941.jpg)

# Protect your eyes. Maintain a proper diet

Health poster: a cartoon rabbit with a grin and red eye hugs a large carrot, while an orange cloud of carrot tops fills the upper left under the headline 'Protect your eyes'. The line 'Maintain a proper diet' runs beneath. The cartoon animal gives a friendly voice to the advice; the technique is faint here.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
PROTECT your EYES
MAINTAIN A PROPER
DIET
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS
```

[← Private Tom says: Folks back home who take time off needlessly](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/private-tom-says-folks-back-home-1941/) [Pull down your shades! Save up to 10% on fuel! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pull-down-your-shades-save-fuel-1941/)

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- [Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/) (France · 1789 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)
- ['This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend', Whig print by T. Sinclair, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harrison-north-bend-log-cabin-sinclair-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Plain folks, Transfer)
- [Treeing Coons (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/treeing-coons-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Plain folks)
- [Zachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President (Currier banner), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-fillmore-peoples-candidate-1848/) (United States · 1848 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)
- ['Little Mac.' (from the Democratic presidential campaign songster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/little-mac-song-sheet-feeks-1864/) (United States · 1864 · Bandwagon, Plain folks)
- [The peoples' choice, H. Greeley G. Brown](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-choice-greeley-brown-1872/) (United States · 1872 · Bandwagon, Plain folks)
- [The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, 'The Galena Tanner.' For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, 'The Natick Shoemaker.'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/working-mans-banner-grant-1872/) (United States · 1872 · Plain folks, Transfer)
- [The Chappaqua farmer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chappaqua-farmer-1872/) (United States · Jul 1872 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)