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title: Handle with Care
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/handle-with-care-hotel-conservation-1941/
description: 'Hotel-conservation poster: a fist grips a bedsheet that is tearing, marked ''RIP'', against red and white stripes, under the headline ''Handle with Care''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Handle with Care, 1941 US poster: Hotel-conservation poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/handle-with-care-hotel-conservation-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/handle-with-care-hotel-conservation-1941.jpg)

# Handle with Care

Hotel-conservation poster: a fist grips a bedsheet that is tearing, marked 'RIP', against red and white stripes, under the headline 'Handle with Care'. A banner reads 'Conserve and you serve Uncle Sam' above a list of hotel economies. The technique is faint: the stripes and 'Uncle Sam' tie housekeeping thrift to national service (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HANDLE
WITH
CARE
RIP
[imprint: AHA AMERICAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION seal]
CONSERVE and you SERVE UNCLE SAM
Save soap.
Handle linens carefully.
Don't waste stationery, etc.
Don't knock cleaning equipment against
walls or furniture.
Don't waste water.
Turn lights off.
Turn mattresses frequently.
Take care of brooms and brushes.
Take good care of your uniform.
```

[← Half the metal in every ship, every tank, every gun is scrap! Throw your scrap into the fight!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/half-the-metal-in-every-ship-scrap-1941/) [Happy landing? Don't let sabotage wreck it! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-landing-dont-let-sabotage-wreck-it-1941/)

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