Save waste fats – Antique Wall Art
![Save waste fats, [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/07/079dbeaf2d63-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Save waste fats comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Printed in 1942 for the War Production Board's Bureau of Industrial Conservation, this poster asks American households to save their used cooking fats. Fats mattered to the war effort because glycerin, which could be made from them, went into explosives, and fats also went into soap and other necessities. Home cooks were asked to pour kitchen drippings into collection containers and turn them in to local butchers, who passed them on for processing. The poster belongs to a broader wartime campaign that asked civilians to conserve scarce materials on the home front.
| Created / published | [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-469848. War Production Board, Bureau of Industrial Conservation. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects. Fat--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218335 |
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