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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Get in the Scrap
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A salvage poster issued by the Division of Information of the Office for Emergency Management, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-864 and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The War Production Board, set up in January 1942 under Executive Order 9024, turned industry to war work and rationed scarce materials, and scrap drives fed metal back to the mills.
What to notice
The pun in the title: scrap as salvage and scrap as a fight.
A junk pile, called to arms.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Production
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514358, local id 44-PA-864), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514358 · 44-PA-864
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 514358, 44-PA-864): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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