"Yellowstone National Park: Ranger Naturalist Service" (National Park Service, about 1938)
Old Faithful erupts in white against blue sky, with 'Ranger Naturalist Service: nature walks, field trips, camp fire programs, nature talks' above the park's name and the Department of the Interior credit. The tell: the geyser is the draw and the service line sets out what the government offers around it.
The National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior issued this poster, dated about 1938 by the Library of Congress and designed by C. Don Powell of the WPA. Old Faithful erupts in white against a blue sky, with 'Ranger Naturalist Service: nature walks, field trips, camp fire programs, nature talks' above the park's name. It invites visitors to use the programs on offer. Glittering generalities is the tagged technique, as the geyser is the draw and the wording stays general.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1938
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- U.S. National Park Service, Department of the Interior (designed by C. Don Powell, WPA)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- New Deal
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. federal WPA work); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 2007676133. "Yellowstone National Park: Ranger Naturalist Service" (National Park Service, about 1938)
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
RANGER NATURALIST SERVICE NATURE WALKS FIELD TRIPS CAMP FIRE-PROGRAMS NATURE TALKS YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
