America needs your scrap rubber
Scrap-drive poster: four black silhouettes (gas mask, life raft, scout car, heavy bomber) each captioned with the pounds of rubber it requires, from 1.11 to 1,825, above the line 'America needs your SCRAP RUBBER'. Figures chosen for large military items support the request; the technique is faint, a selective set of numbers (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board, Bureau of Industrial Conservation
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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 Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-349 (NAID 513799).
Text on the object
A Gas Mask requires 1.11 pounds of rubber A Life Raft requires 17 to 100 pounds of rubber A Scout Car requires 306 pounds of rubber A Heavy Bomber requires 1,825 pounds of rubber America needs your SCRAP RUBBER [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942 -- O -- 469847 WAR PRODUCTION BOARD Bureau of Industrial Conservation
