Clean Rags - Dirty Rags - All Are Wanted!
A smiling woman in a blue blouse and black skirt holds up a clean cloth in one hand and a dirty one in the other beside the headline 'Clean Rags - Dirty Rags - All are Wanted!'. The ordinary housewife as the figure of the request is the plain-folks tell; the poster asks for salvage of rags without stating what they are used for.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) for the British government; printed by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd., London
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) for the British government; printed by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd., London. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), World War II Foreign Posters, NAID 44266372.
Text on the object
Clean Rags - Dirty Rags - All are Wanted! PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY LOWE & BRYDONE PRINTERS LTD., LONDON, N.W.10. 51-2488
