• 1943 WWII home front booklet cover spread: “A JOB ONLY A WOMAN CAN DO!” and “For Gunpowder SAVE WASTE FATS” poster artwork.
  • Close-up of the red-and-cream front cover of a 1943 WWII home front booklet reading “A JOB ONLY A WOMAN CAN DO!”
  • Close-up of the back cover poster of a 1943 WWII booklet reading “For Gunpowder SAVE WASTE FATS—Rush Them to Your Meat Dealer.”
  • Front cover of a 1943 WWII home front booklet with red and blue typography reading “A JOB ONLY A WOMAN CAN DO!”
  • Interior spread from a 1943 WWII home front booklet: “You Can Help Shorten This War!” urges households to save cooking fats.
  • Interior spread from a 1943 WWII booklet explaining rationing and saving used cooking fats and greases for gunpowder.
  • Illustrated interior spread from a 1943 WWII booklet showing household fats to save, including drippings, solid fats, grease, lard, and cooking oil.
  • Illustrated “How to Do It!” interior spread showing how to reuse cooking fats, strain grease, and take it to a meat dealer.
  • Interior spread titled “What Becomes of Your Used Fat,” explaining how salvaged fats become glycerine and wartime explosives.
  • Interior spread titled “What Your Used Fats Mean at the Front,” linking household fat salvage to smokeless powder and weapons.
  • Interior spread titled “Munitions From Kitchens,” showing six steps from saving kitchen fats to making explosives and ammunition.
  • Stack of original 1943 WWII home front booklets with red-and-cream covers reading “A JOB ONLY A WOMAN CAN DO!”
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1943 WWII US Home Front Booklet - 'A JOB ONLY A WOMAN CAN DO!'

1943 WWII US Home Front Booklet - 'A JOB ONLY A WOMAN CAN DO!'

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Original 1943 WWII home front booklet titled A Job Only a Woman Can Do!, issued by the Salvage Division of the War Production Board.

This 16-page illustrated wartime ephemera booklet urged American women to save used cooking fats and bring them to their local meat dealer for the war effort. The booklet connects household fat salvage with the production of glycerin and explosives.

Details

  • Year: 1943
  • Publisher: Salvage Division, War Production Board
  • Format: 16-page illustrated paper booklet
  • Size: Approximately 8 x 5 inches
  • Printing: Red and blue illustrations and typography
  • Subject: WWII home front, women in wartime, waste-fat salvage, and wartime propaganda

Back-Cover Poster Design

The back cover features the bold WWII home-front message: “For Gunpowder — SAVE WASTE FATS — Rush Them to Your Meat Dealer.” The illustration looks down the barrel of a large artillery gun, with soldiers working around its base. This design and wording also appeared as a separately issued 1943 wartime poster, making the booklet a compact paper version of a larger American propaganda image.

The booklet documents the WWII fat-salvage campaign, which encouraged women and households to save cooking grease and waste fats, then take them to local meat dealers for conversion into glycerin and explosives.

Condition

New old stock: original copies that were never distributed or used. Because these booklets were stored since the 1940s, some may show surface rust on the staples or age spotting and discoloration from oxidation. The photos show a representative copy; you may not receive the exact booklet pictured.

A distinctive piece of World War II paper ephemera for collectors of military history, women’s history, wartime graphics, and vintage publications.

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