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title: Sight security
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sight-security-1944/
description: 'Industrial safety poster: a worker''s head in dark silhouette with orange-lit face, wearing protective goggles, with a black arrow pointing at the lenses.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Sight security, 1944 US poster: Industrial safety poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sight-security-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sight-security-1944.jpg)

# Sight security

Industrial safety poster: a worker's head in dark silhouette with orange-lit face, wearing protective goggles, with a black arrow pointing at the lenses. The headline 'Sight Security' borrows the vocabulary of the wartime security campaigns for eye protection at work, a mild transfer; no threat or enemy is shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SIGHT
SECURITY
[signature: Stanley Ekman]
[imprint: U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR / DIVISION OF LABOR STANDARDS / WASHINGTON - 1944]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--O--595885]
[emblem at lower left: text illegible]
```

[← Shock absorbers left to get dry, wear out and will leak by and by](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shock-absorbers-left-to-get-dry-1944/) [Silence means security →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/silence-means-security-hand-over-mouth-1944/)

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