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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
Housewives! Save Waste Fats for Explosives!
Walter Richards · Office of War Information, 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 Walter Richards made, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-1004, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The War Production Board, set up in January 1942 under Executive Order 9024, rationed scarce materials, and kitchen fat went to the munitions plants.
What to notice
The address in the first word, Housewives, and the two exclamation marks that bracket the order.
The kitchen, enlisted in the arsenal.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Walter Richards
- Campaign
- Production · Women at War
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514530, local id 44-PA-1004), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514530 · 44-PA-1004
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 514530, 44-PA-1004): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted. The record title reads Saves; the DPLA file gives the sheet's own Save.
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