Your Cooking Range ... family meals depend on it (save the surface)
Instruction sheet with a round photograph of a woman wiping a range top and a second of a woman kneeling to clean an open oven, under 'Save the surface' and 'Clean inside and outside'. The technique is faint; plain-folks is the closest label, since ordinary housewives in everyday dress model the care.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Science and technology
- 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, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1136C (NAID 514666).
Text on the object
Your COOKING RANGE ... family meals depend on it Whether it's GAS or ELECTRIC SAVE THE SURFACE • Wipe up spills promptly with dry cloth or paper ....acid foods may eat into the surface Clean inside and outside • For stubborn spots use finely powdered cleanser like whiting • Wipe daily [imprint:] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. [imprint:] ☆U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—520004 "Make your Equipment last"...No. 4 For further details see Folder AWI-8 BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
