Topic: Salvage & Sacrifice (Posters)
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The war shifted much of America’s industrial and agricultural production to military priorities. For example, automobile manufacturing skidded to a halt for the duration of the war as Detroit-area facilities instead began to turn out tanks and related military products. Other civilian goods were rationed or otherwise scarce for most of the war. As a result, posters constantly reminded home front citizens to reuse and recycle products, to follow rationing rules, to grow their own produce in Victory Gardens, to can food for winter months, and to contribute any excess metals, paper, or kitchen fats to scrap drives—where such products had useful industrial applications in wartime.
Ask the Women and Children…
Title: Ask the Women and Children…
Year: 1942
Artist: Käthe Kollwitz
Published: Office of War Information
A Real Partnership
Title: A Real Partnership
Year: unknown
Artist: unknown
Published: US Army
Are You Playing Square?
Title: Are You Playing Square?
Year: 1944
Artist: Dean Cornwell
Published: Office of War Information
Can All You Can
Title: Can All You Can
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: Office of War Information
War Traffic Must Come First
Title: War Traffic Must Come First
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: Office of War Information
Doggone It, Fellows!
Title: Doggone It, Fellows!
Year: 1943
Artist: unknown
Published: unknown
No One Had to Tell Him to Save Food & Equipment
Title: No One Had to Tell Him to Save Food & Equipment
Year: 1944
Artist: Wilson
Published: US Army
Salvage For Victory
Title: Salvage For Victory
Year: unknown
Artist: Louis Robert Samish
Published: unknown
Scrap
Title: Scrap
Year: 1942
Artist: Roy Schatt
Published: US Department of Agriculture
