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title: Ventilate Your Quarters
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ventilate-your-quarters-games-1939/
description: A blue wedge forms the V of 'Ventilate' and runs down toward a camouflaged barrack hut and an open window. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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# Ventilate Your Quarters

A blue wedge forms the V of 'Ventilate' and runs down toward a camouflaged barrack hut and an open window. The poster gives a bare instruction with no stated reason; the only persuasion is the clean-air imagery, a light use of virtue symbolism.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Ventilate
YOUR QUARTERS
A. GAMES R.E.
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY LOWE & BRYDONE PRINTERS LTD., LONDON, N.W.10. 51-1502
P.R.2. No 47.
```

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