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Beware...Drink Only Approved Water

Never give a germ a break!
Photomontage. War Department, United States, 1944.
Photomechanical print: color; 36 x 51 cm.

This poster, from the War Department, shows a soldier about to drink from a microbe-infested jungle stream. He is surprised to see his reflected face transformed into a figure of death.


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Skeleton (death figure) represented by an image of a skull

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