Spray to kill malaria mosquitoes hide in your home
Public health poster: a large cartoon mosquito with raised fists faces a hand-held insecticide sprayer, under the words 'Spray to kill' and 'Malaria mosquitoes hide in your home'. The threat is placed inside the household and the remedy is a household task; the fear-appeal is mild and played for humour.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service (artist signed Mango)
- 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-1326B (NAID 514970).
Text on the object
SPRAY TO KILL MALARIA MOSQUITOES HIDE IN YOUR HOME [signature: Mango] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-516139] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Federal Security Agency U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE MC 3
