Original Title/Caption: “Outdoor sign. It is your patriotic duty to avoid accidents and protect your fellow workers.”
Description: This black and white photograph is of a lighted-outdoor sign that reads as follows: “It is your patriotic duty to avoid accidents and protect your fellow workers.” The text covers the belly of a Bald Eagle and is circled by a ring of stars. An American Flag waves behind the Bald Eagle.
Source: “Outdoor sign. It is your patriotic duty to avoid accidents and protect your fellow workers.” Photograph, between 1941 and 1945?. From Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Call number LC-USE6- D-010843. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b07035 (accessed March 20, 2007).
Historical discussion: This outdoor sign told viewers that it was their “patriotic duty to avoid accidents and protect your fellow workers.” The sign evokes patriotic feelings by using images like the American Flag and a Bald Eagle and weighted words like “patriotic” and “duty.” Again, much of the American propaganda of World War II that focused on workplace safety sought to link the home front and the battlefield, making Americans at home conscious of their role in the outcome of the war.
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