Save waste fats
Four-panel instruction sheet: a frying pan on a stove, fat strained into a can, the can kept in a cool dark place, and a woman selling it to a smiling butcher. Red headline 'SAVE WASTE FATS'. The technique is faint here: the appeal is mostly practical steps, with ordinary shoppers and a friendly tradesman as the plain-folks frame.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board, Bureau of Industrial Conservation
- 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)
War Production Board, Bureau of Industrial Conservation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1676 (NAID 515344).
Text on the object
Save waste fats and greases Strain into clean can Keep in cool dark place Sell it to your meat dealer SAVE WASTE FATS [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—469848] [imprint: WAR PRODUCTION BOARD, Bureau of Industrial Conservation]
