Rushing is dangerous any time - any place!
Navy Department safety poster: a smiling worker in overalls hurries along with a lunch box in one hand and the other raised in a wave, above the text 'Rushing is dangerous any time - any place!'. The technique is faint: an everyday worker figure stands for the audience, with the danger stated in words rather than shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Navy Department Safety Poster (artist Thorndike)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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. Navy, Navy Department Safety Poster. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1651 (NAID 515318).
Text on the object
RUSHING is DANGEROUS ANY TIME - ANY PLACE! NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY POSTER [signature:] Thorndike [imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945 O—637655
