The South African Red Cross Society / Die Suid-Afrikaanse Rooikruisvereniging, 1939 South Africa poster: A bilingual English

The South African Red Cross Society / Die Suid-Afrikaanse Rooikruisvereniging (house-fly life cycle)

A bilingual English and Afrikaans public-health sheet shows the stages of the house-fly as numbered film-strip frames (eggs, larvae, pupae, emerging fly, enlarged adult, mouthparts) and three vignettes on clearing manure, compost and refuse. The tell for transfer is the Red Cross emblem and the Union health department's approval lending authority; the sheet is otherwise instructional, with no persuasive claim stated.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Transfer

Date: 1939
Period: Interwar
Made by: South African Red Cross Society, Johannesburg (approved by the Union Department of Public Health); printed by Hortors Limited, Johannesburg; artist E. Ullmann
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country: South Africa
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: NGO
Regime: Hertzog Government
Leader: J B. M. Hertzog
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Warn or inform
Theme: Health
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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: Held by NARA, Unrestricted; South African publication of 1939; hosted by owner decision
South African Red Cross Society, Johannesburg, 1939; artist E. Ullmann. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-887.

Text on the object

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

THE SOUTH AFRICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE ROOIKRUISVERENIGING

[numerals 1-9 label the pictures; no other text]

EUllmann [signature]

Published by the South African Red Cross Society, P.O. Box 3266, Johannesburg, and Approved by the Union Department of Public Health.
HORTORS LIMITED JOHANNESBURG   6/1939
Uitgegee deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Rooikruisvereniging, Posbus 3266, Johannesburg, en goedgekeur deur die Unie Departement van Volksgesondheid.

[Translation of the Afrikaans lines: Published by the South African Red Cross Society, P.O. Box 3266, Johannesburg, and approved by the Union Department of Public Health.]