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Updated 11/12/04.
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“Scrap Your Fat, Lady!”

Readers Digest article about Bootleg Nylons:  text , actual image
 

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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

New York (and vicinity), NY. Fat salvage campaign.
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Washington, D.C. Saving waste fat and greases from which war material will be made.
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Washington, D.C. A sign on a shoe store on the last day on which war ration shoe coupon seventeen may be used.

Washington, D.C. A group of people waiting for the shoe store to open on the last day on which war ration shoe coupon seventeen may be used.

Washington, D.C. Crowds waiting for shoe store to open on the last day on which war ration shoe coupon seventeen may be used.

Washington, D.C. A crowded shoe store on the last day on which war ration shoe coupon seventeen may be used.
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Washington, D.C. A shoe store clerk opening the door to customers on the last day on which war ration shoe coupon seventeen may be used.

Washington, D.C. Part of a crowd waiting their turn in a shoe store on the last day on which war ration shoe coupon seventeen may be used.
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Washington, D.C. Installing a "Victory" storm pane, or extra pane of glass on a home window as a war-time fuel conservation measure. Entire perimeter of the victory storm pane with all-weather sealing tape.

Washington, D.C. Installing a "Victory" storm pane, or extra pane of glass on a home window as a war-time fuel conservation measure. Fastening a three inch strip of molding to the lower frame of the window.

For a series of images about fuel conservation, search the collection, using keywords, conservation of fuel.
 

These photos are in the collection of the Museum of Tolerance .

Rationing
 

These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

A soldier of the home front saves all waste fats and greases so that they can be processed into ammunition for America's soldiers of the battlefronts.

Saturday's a holiday for most of the nation's small fry, but to these youngsters of Roanoke, Va., it's fat-collection day.

Butchers will pay householders for the fat and sell it to rendering plants where it will be processed into ammunition for America's fighting men.

"Lena Horne conserves fuel (gas)."

The worn out nylon stockings in this barrel full of salvaged stockings will be reprocessed and made into parachutes for army fliers, tow ropes for gilder planes and other war material.

Silk stockings which can no longer be worn are being collected in stores throughout the country for conversation into powder bags which propel the projectile in big naval and coast defense guns.
 

These photos are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Fuel oil ration coupons, 1

Fuel oil ration coupons, 2

Fuel oil ration coupons, 3
 

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Posters

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Wanted for victory

Get in the scrap

Keep scrapping

Use it up

Serve our fighting men
 

These posters are in the American Memory collection By the People, For the People:  Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Save scrap for victory!: Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rags.

Don't waste water

Don't be a drip!: Be patriotic ... Stop leaks ... Save water.

War industry needs water: Protect production : Use it wisely.

No water - no guns: Don't waste it!!

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water: Do not use hose for washing your automobile: Do use water from a pail.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water: Do not use more water in the kitchen than is necessary.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water: Do not let water run a long time to get a drink: Do keep water in icebox instead.

Sew for victory
 

This poster is in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

"I'm conserving wool, this bathing suit's painted on." Cartoon drawing by Charles Shows.
 

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Waste fats

Stop fuel waste

Fuel fights

Too little too late

Prepare for winter now

Don’t shiver

Order coal now

All fuel is scarce

Dress warmly
 

This poster is in the Minneapolis Public Library's Posters of the Second World War collection.

Homemaker's war guide

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Pamphlets

The Timeline of Costume History: 1940-1950 (from the Costumer's Manifesto ) has several items about wartime fabric conservation. Scroll down for sections on using fabric remnants, wartime guidelines for manufacturing, altering old dresses, and darning nylons.

Make Do and Mend (scroll down for British instructions for making clothes last)
 

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These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

A war job in your own home

Make-overs from men's suits

Take care of the wool you have

Toys in wartime: suggestions to parents

Bituminous coal

How to heat your home with less fuel this winter

How to make standard containers from second-hand boxes

War demands: salvage and re-use of fruit and vegetable containers

Get in the scrap

War against waste

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Ads

Listing of ads for conservation (all kinds)

This ad is in the collection of the University of San Diego .

Keep ‘em frying (Kleenex tissue)

1,001 ways soap helps to win the war (Proctor and Gamble)

LUX Wartime Clothes Service (British ads with instructions for making clothes last)
 

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