Salvage for Victory and Be Proud!
Black-and-white woodcut: a man in a short-sleeved shirt carries a bundle of paper through flames, with a large gun and a small group of onlookers behind him. The headline 'Salvage for Victory' and the line 'And be proud!' attach pride to a household chore. The scrap-collecting ask is carried by virtue words and the gun imagery.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Putnam County War Council, Carmel, N.Y.; woodcut by Frances O'Brien Garfield and Ernest Hamlin Baker
- 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)
Putnam County War Council. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1666 (NAID 515334).
Text on the object
SALVAGE FOR VICTORY AND BE PROUD! [signature:] Francerne -2- Wood Cut by Frances O'Brien Garfield and Ernest Hamlin Baker, Designed for Putnam County War Council, Carmel, N. Y.
