Minnesota's Greatest Generation

"Save waste fats for explosives. Take them to your meat dealer"

Americans were encouraged to save a variety of materials and donate them to the war effort. This poster, created by Henry Koerner for the Office of War Information, urged housewives to save cooking fats and turn them into the neighborhood butcher for recycling into explosives.

Creator: Henry Koerner
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1943
Identifer: location E448.14 a36

"Save waste fats for explosives. Take them to your meat dealer"