Put Out More Salvage and Save More Shipping
A type-only poster in blue and red capitals on a cream panel with a pale blue textured border reads 'Put out more salvage and save more shipping.' The tell is the one-step claim that household salvage saves ship space, with no figures or explanation of how.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British government salvage campaign (HMSO imprint; issuer not named on the poster); printed by Johnson Riddle & Co. 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)
British government salvage campaign (HMSO imprint, c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44 (NARA ID 44266951).
Text on the object
PUT OUT MORE SALVAGE AND SAVE MORE SHIPPING PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY JOHNSON RIDDLE & CO. LTD. LONDON. S.E.20. 51-5516
