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title: Dig In and Dig Out the Scrap
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-dig-in-and-dig-out-the-scrap-1939/
description: 'A smiling woman in a cap and coat carries a bundle of papers, a saucepan and a kettle against a green ground, above a list of salvage materials: metals.'
section: Collection
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[![Dig In and Dig Out the Scrap, 1939 Canada poster: A smiling woman in a cap and coat carries a bundle of papers, a saucepan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-dig-in-and-dig-out-the-scrap-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-dig-in-and-dig-out-the-scrap-1939.jpg)

# Dig In and Dig Out the Scrap

A smiling woman in a cap and coat carries a bundle of papers, a saucepan and a kettle against a green ground, above a list of salvage materials: metals, rags, bones, paper, rubber, glass. The tell is plain-folks: an ordinary housewife-figure gathering household items presents scrap collection as a familiar domestic act, followed by the assertion that these are 'vital war needs'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
DIG IN
and
DIG OUT the SCRAP

Save
METALS RAGS PAPER BONES RUBBER GLASS
THEY ARE VITAL WAR NEEDS
GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR LOCAL COMMITTEE

ISSUED BY PUBLIC INFORMATION, FOR NATIONAL SALVAGE OFFICE, OTTAWA;
UNDER AUTHORITY OF HON. J. G. GARDINER, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES.
```

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