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title: 'Private Scrap Goes to the Front: A Salvage Exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-private-scrap-goes-to-the-front-1942/
description: A torn newspaper cutout on red announces a free salvage exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station, 17 to 31 December.
section: Collection
---

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# Private Scrap Goes to the Front: A Salvage Exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station

A torn newspaper cutout on red announces a free salvage exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station, 17 to 31 December, beside a photograph of scrap metal. Transfer: the layout borrows the look and credibility of a newspaper front page, and the headline casts household scrap as a soldier going to the front.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17th

PRIVATE SCRAP
GOES TO THE FRONT

A Salvage Exhibition
at Charing Cross
Underground Station

DECEMBER 17TH TO 31ST
9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. (Sundays included)

ADMISSION FREE. Produced for the Ministry of Supply by the Ministry of Information.

"We should like a few million people to do exactly as you have done.

Scrap Metal is h[...] on its way to [...] furnace in [...] munition[s]
```

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