Keep scrapping: America needs more rubber, metals, rags, paper, burlap
Type-only salvage poster in red and black: 'Keep Scrapping, America needs more rubber, metals, rags, paper, burlap', with a note to separate the different metals. There is no image; the technique is faint, an appeal made by a plain list of what is wanted and the phrase 'America needs'.
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)
Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1207 (NAID 514813).
Text on the object
KEEP SCRAPPING America needs more RUBBER METALS RAGS PAPER BURLAP Separate the different metals [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office 16-28157-1] DIVISION OF INFORMATION OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
