Housewives! Save waste fats for explosives!
Home-front salvage poster addressed to 'Housewives': a hand with a dishcloth tips a frying pan, and a long thread of cooking fat runs down into the breech of a field gun that fires in a cloud of smoke, with soldiers beside it. The line from pan to gun links a kitchen chore directly to artillery, a transfer; the printed instruction is to take the fats to the meat dealer. This is a different design from the OWI Poster No. 63 on the same subject.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government salvage campaign, artist Walter Richards
- 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, artist Walter Richards. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1004 (NAID 514530).
Text on the object
Housewives! SAVE WASTE FATS FOR EXPLOSIVES! Take them to your meat dealer [signature: Walter Richards]
