Put Out Your Old Rubber Boots for Salvage
Two worn, cracked rubber boots and a shoe are drawn above a block of red lettering asking householders to put out old rubber boots for salvage. The tell for plain-folks is the use of an everyday household object to make a national collection drive a personal chore; the poster gives no reason why rubber is needed.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- His Majesty's Stationery Office (printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd, Netherfield, Nottingham)
- 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)
His Majesty's Stationery Office (printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd, Netherfield, Nottingham), c. 1939-1945 (NARA, RG 44 World War II Foreign Posters, NAID 44266961).
Text on the object
PUT OUT YOUR OLD RUBBER BOOTS FOR SALVAGE Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co., Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham. 51-2365
