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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards (artist Stanley Ekman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1745 (NAID 515416).
Text on the object
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]
