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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Director of Public Information for the National Salvage Office, Ottawa, under the Minister of National War Services (J. T. Thorson)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Gender and suffrage, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Canadian Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired; no URAA restoration)
Director of Public Information, National Salvage Office, Department of National War Services (Canada), c. 1941-1942. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
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
