For gunpowder, Save waste fats
Salvage poster: the muzzle of a very large gun fills the sheet, with 'SAVE WASTE FATS' lettered inside the bore and soldiers working around the breech and ladder. 'For Gunpowder' runs above and 'Rush Them to Your Meat Dealer' below. The tell is transfer: a kitchen by-product is tied directly to artillery, the idea being that household fat becomes ammunition.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government salvage campaign (issuer not printed)
- 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)
U.S. government salvage campaign (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-797 (NAID 514286).
Text on the object
For Gunpowder SAVE WASTE FATS Rush Them to Your Meat Dealer
