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title: It's Up to You, Mr. and Mrs. Homemaker ... to Make Your Home Equipment Last
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/its-up-to-you-mr-and-mrs-homemaker-1943/
description: Cartoon sheet in which a refrigerator, washing machine, range, vacuum cleaner, sewing machine and iron with faces and legs march in uniform caps
section: Collection
---

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[![It's Up to You, Mr. and Mrs. Homemaker... to Make Your Home Equipment Last, 1943 US poster: Cartoon sheet in which](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/its-up-to-you-mr-and-mrs-homemaker-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/its-up-to-you-mr-and-mrs-homemaker-1943.jpg)

# It's Up to You, Mr. and Mrs. Homemaker ... to Make Your Home Equipment Last

Cartoon sheet in which a refrigerator, washing machine, range, vacuum cleaner, sewing machine and iron with faces and legs march in uniform caps with rifles, carrying banners 'Keep us working' and 'Use without waste'. The tell is transfer: the military look of marching troops is attached to household care, addressed directly to 'Mr. and Mrs. Homemaker'.

## 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

```
IT'S UP TO YOU,
MR. and MRS. HOMEMAKER
....to make
your Home
Equipment
last
[banner:] KEEP US WORKING
[banner:] USE WITHOUT WASTE
[imprint:] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
[imprint:] ☆U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—520004
"Make your Equipment last-Posters"...No.1
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

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