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title: Housewives! Wage War on Hitler - Save
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-housewives-wage-war-on-hitler-save-1941/
description: A blue and white poster shows a bent spoon with a banner listing 'Rubber, Metal, Paper, Fats, Bones, Rags, Glass' and the headline 'Housewives!
section: Collection
---

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# Housewives! Wage War on Hitler - Save

A blue and white poster shows a bent spoon with a banner listing 'Rubber, Metal, Paper, Fats, Bones, Rags, Glass' and the headline 'Housewives! Wage war on Hitler'. The poster addresses women by household role and recasts kitchen salvage as a form of fighting the named enemy, a transfer of war onto a domestic chore.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HOUSEWIVES!
WAGE WAR ON HITLER
Save
RUBBER · METAL · PAPER
FATS · BONES · RAGS · GLASS

GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR LOCAL SALVAGE COMMITTEE

ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR NATIONAL SALVAGE OFFICE, OTTAWA, UNDER AUTHORITY OF HONOURABLE J. T. THORSON, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES. Printed in Canada. HS-2E
```

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