c.1942 Housewives! Save Waste Fats For Explosives WWII Walter Richards
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Date: c.1942
Artist: Richards, Walter
Size (in): 19.75” x 16”
Size (cm): 50.2 x 40.6
Condition: B
Linen backed: No
This vintage original window card style WWII poster was created by artist Walter Richards and issued early in the war to remind Americans on the home front that it was their patriotic duty to save and turn in waste fats from cooking for use in manufacturing explosives for the war effort. Waste fats were harvested for the glycerin they contained with one pound of waste fat from cooking containing enough glycerin to produce almost an equal weight in explosives. So essential to the war effort were waste fats from cooking that the wartime American Fat Salvage Committee was established and the government began actually paying civilians 4 cents a pound for waste fats turned in at butcher shops and meat retailers.
This vintage original poster is a window card style printed one side only on lightweight cardboard. This poster shows light handling wear including some bumping to the corner and modest toning from age. The poster has a small unobtrusive on the letter "S" in the word "SAVE" at the top of the poster. The colors retain their brightness and and overall condition is very good.
Artist: Richards, Walter
Size (in): 19.75” x 16”
Size (cm): 50.2 x 40.6
Condition: B
Linen backed: No
This vintage original window card style WWII poster was created by artist Walter Richards and issued early in the war to remind Americans on the home front that it was their patriotic duty to save and turn in waste fats from cooking for use in manufacturing explosives for the war effort. Waste fats were harvested for the glycerin they contained with one pound of waste fat from cooking containing enough glycerin to produce almost an equal weight in explosives. So essential to the war effort were waste fats from cooking that the wartime American Fat Salvage Committee was established and the government began actually paying civilians 4 cents a pound for waste fats turned in at butcher shops and meat retailers.
This vintage original poster is a window card style printed one side only on lightweight cardboard. This poster shows light handling wear including some bumping to the corner and modest toning from age. The poster has a small unobtrusive on the letter "S" in the word "SAVE" at the top of the poster. The colors retain their brightness and and overall condition is very good.
