Don't burn waste paper
Salvage poster: a dented metal bin overflows with newspapers, a cereal-style box, a toothpaste carton and corrugated card, with a red flame sweeping in from the top left behind 'Don't burn'. The line 'Our war effort needs it' ties household waste to the war effort (transfer), with 'Call A Collector!' as the instruction.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management (artist: Rabkin)
- 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)
Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-658 (NAID 514136).
Text on the object
Don't burn WASTE PAPER Our war effort needs it Call A Collector! [signature:] RABKIN [imprint:] DIVISION OF INFORMATION OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
