Get in the scrap
Type-only scrap-drive poster in large red and black lettering: 'Get in the SCRAP', then 'America's war industries need' metals, paper, old rags and rubber, and 'Get it back in war production'. The technique is faint; the 'get in' phrasing invites the reader to join a collective effort, a mild bandwagon appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management
- 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)
Office for Emergency Management, Division of Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-864 (NAID 514358).
Text on the object
Get in the SCRAP America's war industries need METALS PAPER OLD RAGS RUBBER Get it back in war production [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16—26423–1] [imprint: DIVISION OF INFORMATION OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.]
