Scrap
One-word poster: a large raised fist grips scrap metal and a rope, rising out of a farmyard with barn and windmill, under the red headline 'SCRAP'. The technique is faint; the closest is plain-folks, tying the war effort to the farm and the farmer's own arm.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (War Boards)
- 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1688 (NAID 515359).
Text on the object
SCRAP [signature: illegible, near the barn] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—466793] UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WAR BOARDS
