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title: Your Refrigerator ... protects health, saves food (use without waste)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-refrigerator-use-without-waste-1943/
description: Instruction sheet with photographs of a woman loading a refrigerator, a couple checking the freezer compartment and a heavily frosted freezer.
section: Collection
---

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# Your Refrigerator ... protects health, saves food (use without waste)

Instruction sheet with photographs of a woman loading a refrigerator, a couple checking the freezer compartment and a heavily frosted freezer, with bullet-point steps. The headline links the appliance to health and saved food; the technique is faint, with plain-folks (ordinary couple and housewife) the main label and a mild fear-appeal in the warning about thick frost.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Your REFRIGERATOR
... protects health, saves food
Use without
waste
• Keep control set at normal
except during quick freezing
• Store only foods that need
refrigeration
• Cool and cover foods before
storing
Defrost regularly and often
• Thick frost like this raises cabinet
temperature.... slows down cooling
x Don't use sharp tools to remove frost
[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. 5
For further details see Folder AWI-4
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

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