Nacimiento y Desarrollo del Zancudo
A public-health chart of the mosquito life cycle, showing eggs, larva, pupa and adult, with the standing-water places where it breeds (puddles, ponds, wells, tanks, swamps). It is instructional rather than persuasive. The only technique that fits at all is the science-looking illustration lending authority to the text (transfer, closest fit); it states no claim beyond the life cycle.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Pública, Dirección General de Sanidad, Nicaragua (printed by U.S. Government Printing Office); artist Augusto
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work, GPO imprint)
Servicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Pública, Nicaragua; printed by U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-854a.
Text on the object
NACIMIENTO Y DESARROLLO DEL ZANCUDO EN FORMA DE HUEVOS LARVA CRISÁLIDA Y MOSQUITO Y EN LUGARES REMANSOS COMO CHARCAS POZOS, PILAS Y PANTANOS Servicio Cooperativo Inter-Americano de Salud Publica. Dirección General de Sanidad. Nicaragua A.A.C. [signed:] Augusto 1943 [imprint:] U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-538317 [Translation: Birth and development of the mosquito: in the form of eggs; larva; pupa; and mosquito; and in standing places such as puddles, wells, tanks and swamps.]
