Stop Breakage: Don't leave thermometer where it can be broken
Army conservation sheet: a red arrow marked 'STOP BREAKAGE' points at a clinical thermometer snapped in two, with fragments flying, over a yellow panel of three care instructions. The technique is faint here: the broken instrument is a mild fear-appeal of loss, and the rest is a plain instruction.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Conservation Project
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Health
- 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. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1816A (NAID 515495).
Text on the object
STOP BREAKAGE DON'T LEAVE THERMOMETER WHERE IT CAN BE BROKEN ALWAYS REPLACE THERMOMETER IN CASE AFTER USING DON'T MISPLACE THERMOMETER OR CASE [seal: U.S. ARMY SAVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM] [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-557772 [imprint:] ARMY CONSERVATION PROJECT NO. 16-M-1 [thermometer scale numerals: 100, 2, 4, 6, 8; 94, 6, 8]
