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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply, produced by the Ministry of Information; printed for HMSO by Multi Machine Plates Ltd
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Information; HMSO, 1942. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
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]
