Save Waste Fats For Explosives WWII USA
USA / 1943 / Propaganda Posters / Henry Koerner / 71x51
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster encouraging people to support the war effort by taking their cooking fat to their local butcher with the incentive to earn extra food ration stamps in support of the war effort - Save waste fats for explosives Take them to your meat dealer - featuring a dynamic image on a dark background of a hand pouring hot fat from a frying pan into a fire with the exploding flames firing up bullets and rockets towards the viewer. The American Fat Salvage Committee was created to reduce waste and encourage housewives to save excess cooking fat and donate it to the army for the manufacture of explosives (1942-1948). Artwork by Henry Koerner (1915-1991). Printed by the US Government Printing Office for the Office of War Information. Fair condition, fold marks, tears, stains.