Save waste paper: sort and bundle, give or sell it!
A smiling woman in a red-and-white striped apron ties a bundle of cardboard beside stacks of magazines and newspapers and a star-banded wastebasket. Headline 'Save Waste Paper', with a four-item sorting list and 'GIVE OR SELL IT!'. Plain-folks housewife; flag colours and stars transfer patriotic feeling to the chore.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government salvage campaign (issuer not printed)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- 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 (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1677 (NAID 515345).
Text on the object
Save Waste Paper Sort and Bundle 1 BROWN PAPER, BAGS, CORRUGATED BOXES 2 WASTEBASKET SCRAPS 3 OLD NEWSPAPERS 4 OLD MAGAZINES GIVE OR SELL IT! CALL YOUR SALVAGE COMMITTEE TODAY! [illegible: partial headlines on the bundled newspaper and magazine covers] [signature: illegible] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1944—O—607301]
