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title: Your vacuum cleaner ... saves your time and energy
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-vacuum-cleaner-saves-time-and-energy-1943/
description: Care sheet for a household vacuum cleaner, No. 9 in the 'Make your Equipment last' series. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Your vacuum cleaner ... saves your time and energy

Care sheet for a household vacuum cleaner, No. 9 in the 'Make your Equipment last' series. Photographs show a woman emptying the dirt bag onto newspaper, cutting string from the brush roller and using the machine, with short rules in blue and yellow panels. The technique is faint here: the ordinary-housewife photographs are the only persuasion device.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Your VACUUM CLEANER
... saves your time and energy

PICK UP BY HAND
pins, string, buttons.
.... they may cut the belt or nick the fan.

Clean out the dirt regularly
• Clean dirt container
.... filter
.... brushes thoroughly.

Guard the cord-
x Don't run over it or get oil on it.
• Coil cord loosely when you put cleaner away.

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. 9
For further details see Folder AWI- 19
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

[← Your Refrigerator ... protects health, saves food (use without waste)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-refrigerator-use-without-waste-1943/) [Your Washing Machine ... helps keep clothes clean →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-washing-machine-1943/)

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