Safe water on the farm
Public health poster: a barefoot boy in overalls sits on a stone slab beside a hand pump drinking from a glass, with 'safe water on the farm' and the line 'Ask your health department to check your water supply'. The technique is faint; the ordinary rural child stands for the intended farm audience, a plain-folks device.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service (artist Robbins)
- 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
- Health, 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)
Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1659 (NAID 515326).
Text on the object
ASK YOUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO CHECK YOUR WATER SUPPLY safe water on the farm Federal Security Agency, U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943—O-526501] CHP-1 [signature: Robbins] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
